The idea for a special hypertext network, called the World Wide Web,

was conceived of by:

Howard Flieshman of IBM in $1982$ as part of the development of the IBM

PC

Vinton Cerf, for the U$.$S$.$ Department of Defense in $1969$ as a network of

four computers called ARPANET

Tim Berners$-$Lee at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics $($CERN$)$ in

$1989$

Microsoft in $1994$ as part of the Windows $95$ project

the University of Minnesota as an extension of Gopher