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Berners-Lee developed the hypertext transfer protocol ([[HTTP]]), the language used in computers to communicate hypertext documents over the internet and the universal resource identifier ('''URI''') now called [[URL]] or uniform resource locator, a system used to locate documents by assigning a unique address while aiting for CERN to approve his proposal.<ref>[http://www.nndb.com/people/573/000023504/ Tim Berners-Lee Profile on NNDB tracking the entire world]</ref>
Berners-Lee developed the hypertext transfer protocol ([[HTTP]]), the language used in computers to communicate hypertext documents over the internet and the universal resource identifier ('''URI''') now called [[URL]] or uniform resource locator, a system used to locate documents by assigning a unique address while aiting for CERN to approve his proposal.<ref>[http://www.nndb.com/people/573/000023504/ Tim Berners-Lee Profile on NNDB tracking the entire world]</ref>
In 1990, [[Robert Cailliau]], a systems engineer who also had an independent proposal to develop a hypertext system joined Berners-Lee. He revised the proposal, collaborated with Berners-Lee on papers and presentations and advocated for funding and organized the first International World Wide Web Conference([[IW3C2]]).<ref>[Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web]</ref>
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