Google marks 30 years of world wide web with special doodle

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Google on Tuesday displayed a special doodle to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web (WWW).

The doodle featured an old, plugged-in computer with a rotating globe.

It was in March 1989 that British physicist Tim Berners-Lee had proposed for the 'Information Management: A Proposal' for World Wide Web while working at Europe’s CERN lab.

Today, it nearly has 2 billion websites online.

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