It's 25 years since the world wide web was made available to the public for the first time.

British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee gave birth to the idea while working at a Swiss physics laboratory in 1989.

The first server was launched two years later, on August 6, 1991.

 Berners-Lee originally developed the web to meet the demand for information-sharing between physicists in universities and institutes around the world.

Chief Executive of the World Wide Web Foundation Anne Jellema says his idea changed the world: