The Internet began as a computer network that linked computer networks at several universities and research laboratories
in the United States .The Internet is a worldwide network of thousands of computers and computer networks. It is a public and cooperative effort between the connected institutions and is not owned or operated by any single
organization. The Internet and Transmission Control Protocols were initially developed in 1973 by American computer scientist Vinton Cerf and directed by American engineer Robert Kahn. The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). It subsequently became a platform for related software
development, and the numbers of linked computers and users grew rapidly to support a variety of endeavors, including a large business marketplace. Its' further development is guided by the WWW Consortium based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.