[Niall]

Originally Posted by MTVN

The internet was created by the Americans, the World Wide Web was invented by the British I think

This.

A british guy made the modern day WWW.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Blitzen

This.

A british guy made the modern day WWW.

1980 . Tim Berners-Lee writes program called "Enquire Within," predecessor to the World Wide Web.

In 1984 he returned to CERN as a fellow. In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet: "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and—ta-da! — the World Wide Web." He wrote his initial proposal in March 1989, and in 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau, produced a revision which was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall. He used similar ideas to those underlying the ENQUIRE system to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first Web browser, which also functioned as an editor (WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd (short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).

The first web site built was at CERN, and was first put on line on 6 August 1991.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee