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World Wide Web is currently the largest service available on Internet and has almost become synonymous with Internet. The Web started out in 1980 at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics). A gentleman named Tim Berners-Lee created a program called Enquire Within Upon Everything (Enquire) to keep track of randomly associated documents by linking them together. As he put it in a 1994 interview with Internet World, he wanted to represent information in a “brain-like” way. In 1989, Berners-Lee proposed a global extension of his ideas that would link hypertext documents all over the world. The content would be put on servers, and people would use browsers to view it. Since then, the Web has grown explosively. It surpassed Gopher in usage within its first few months. To use the Web, you need a client called a Web browser. One of the first Web browsers was Mosaic, created by Netscape founder Marc Andreeseen. An early version of Mosaic was released by NCSA (National Centre for Supercomputing Applications) in 1993. In 1994, Andreeseen left NCSA to start Mosaic Communications, now called Netscape.