The document discusses the origins and development of the World Wide Web. It began as a military communication system called Arpanet in 1969 to share information across computers in the United States. In 1989, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN to enable automated information sharing between scientists around the world. Although Berners-Lee and the CERN team did not foresee the huge social and economic impact, the World Wide Web has since transformed how people access and share information globally and fueled revolutions through new forms of interaction.