ENQUIRE

ENQUIRE was a software project written in 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN,^[2] which was the predecessor to the World Wide Web.^[2]^[3]^[4] It was a simple hypertext program^[4] that had some of the same ideas as the Web and the Semantic Web but was different in several important ways.

According to Berners-Lee, the name was inspired by the title of an old how-to book, Enquire Within upon Everything.^[2]^[3]^[5]

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^ ^a ^b ^c Berners-Lee, Tim. "Frequently asked questions — Start of the web: Influences". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
^ ^a ^b Jeffery, Simon; Fenn, Chris; Smith, Bobbie; Coumbe, John (23 October 2009). "A people's history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today" (Flash). The Guardian. London. pp. See 1980. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
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^ Finkelstein, Prof. Anthony (15 August 2003). "ENQUIRE WITHIN UPON EVERYTHING". ICT Portal. BBC. Archived from the original on 21 June 2003. Retrieved 7 January 2010.