the world wide web www turned 30 on tuesday march 12 2019 and the day was celebrated with a google doodle english scientist tim bernerslee invented the www in 1989 and the first web browser was written in 1990the www popularly called the web is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by uniform resource locators urls today it is used by billions of users to interact on the internetlets see how and when it all startedmarch 1989 tim bernerslees proposal information management a proposal was circulated for comments at the european organisation for nuclear research cernoctober 1990 lee wrote the first web browser while employed at cern near geneva switzerlandaugust 1991 the web browser was released outside cern first to other research institutions and then to the general public on the internetapril 1993 cern announced that www technology would be available free of cost for everyone may 1994 first international www conference was conducted at cern in genevaoctober 1994 the world wide web consortium w3c an international standards organization for www was founded