This document provides a history of the development of the World Wide Web from its origins in 1980 through present day. It discusses Tim Berners-Lee's initial vision for a system to allow scientists to share information, the creation of the first web browser and server in 1990, and the launch and early growth of the Web in 1991-1995. It also outlines the standardization of HTML and other web standards by the W3C, and characterizes different generations of the Web from static Web 1.0 to user-generated Web 2.0 to a proposed personalized Web 3.0.