Questions › Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history
On what date was information first successfully sent over the World Wide Web, invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee?
- A4 July 1976
- B1 January 1985
- C25 December 1990Right answer
- D25 December 1996
Answer: 25 December 1990
The web's inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is British. The first successful transfer of information across it happened on 25 December 1990.
From chapter 3 of the handbook, "A long and illustrious history", section "Britain since 1945". Practice question 272 of 651, written in our own words.