Who among the following is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW)?
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- AEdward Kasner
- BBill Gates
- CTim Berners-LeeCorrect
- DVinod Dham
Explanation
Tim Berners Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN. He developed the first web browser and the fundamental protocols that allow the internet to function as a global information sharing system, such as HTML and HTTP.
Regarding the other options, Edward Kasner was a mathematician known for the term googol, Bill Gates is the cofounder of Microsoft, and Vinod Dham is known as the Father of the Pentium Chip. Therefore, option C is the correct answer.
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