The document summarizes the history of the World Wide Web from its inception in 1989 to 2010. It describes how Tim Berners-Lee created the first website at CERN in 1989 and launched the world's first web server in 1990. It then outlines the growth of the web through milestones like the release of early web browsers in the 1990s, the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, and the rise of web 2.0 technologies and social media in the 2000s. The document concludes by discussing the future of the semantic web and possibilities for a more decentralized web architecture.