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Description
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He wrote the first web browser computer program in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland. The first release of the Web browser outside of CERN was in 1991. It was first released to other research institutions starting in January 1991 and then to the general public on the Internet in August 1991.

Billions of people everyday interact with the World Wide Web. The creation of the World Wide Web has led to an era know as the age of information where information on nearly any subject can be accessed in mere seconds on the internet. Web pages, where information is stored on the internet, mostly contain formatted text documents. However, they may also include images, video, audio, and software components.

Security
According to web giant Google, as many as one in ten websites may contain malicious coding. As the use of the internet has grown throughout the years, so too has its utilization as a tool for criminal activities. Attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) that became popular with the introduction of JavaScript, were exacerbated to some degree by Web 2.0 and Ajax web design that favors the use of scripts. Another popular malicious activity is known as phishing and it accounts for over a billions dollars a year in losses to targeted internet users.