World Wide Web
Invention and innovation • 1980s
Coming to Wonder Inventions on 7 November 2026.

About this story
- Subject
- World Wide Web
- Category
- Communication and Media Inventions
- Where
- Global
- When
- Ancient world to digital era
- Length
- 10 illustrated pages · about 15 minutes to read · about 11 minutes to listen
Who appears
- Tim Berners-Lee — Inventor of the World Wide Web
- Vannevar Bush — Visionary of Hypertext (Memex)
- Ted Nelson — Hypertext System (Project Xanadu) developer
- Scientist/Researcher — Early Web Adopter
- Mosaic User — Typical User of Mosaic web browser
What happens on 7 November 2026
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