Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?

The World Wide Web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Here are the steps that led to its creation:

1. In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee, a young contractor at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, developed a system to organize and link documents that he named "Enquire."

2. In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for a more radical system for linking and accessing information across different computers.

3. By Christmas 1990, Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web: the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the first Web browser (which was also a HTML editor and could access Usenet newsgroups and FTP files), the first HTTP server software, the first web server, and the first Web pages that described the project itself.

4. In 1991, he made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web was born.

5. In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. It was made up of companies that wanted to work together to create Web standards and improve the Web. It was here that Berners-Lee and others wrote the protocols that have been used to develop the Web's capabilities.

So, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web.