Which inventor is credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989?

Tim Berners-Lee is credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989.

While working at CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory, Berners-Lee proposed a system for linking and sharing information across the internet. His proposal introduced the core ideas of web pages connected by hyperlinks and accessed through browsers. He developed the main building blocks: HTML, the language for web documents; HTTP, a protocol for transferring them; and URLs, addresses that identify resources.

Berners-Lee created the first web server and browser, called WorldWideWeb, on a NeXT computer. CERN opened the Web to the public in 1991, and the technology spread rapidly after the restrictions on commercial internet use were removed in the early 1990s.

The World Wide Web is often confused with the internet. The internet is the global network infrastructure, while the Web is a service that uses that network to connect documents and other resources. Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn helped develop foundational internet protocols, but they did not create the Web itself.