Final answer:
Tim Berners-Lee developed the protocol that the World Wide Web is based on, including HTML and URI.
Step-by-step explanation:
The World Wide Web was based on a protocol developed by Tim Berners-Lee. He wrote the three basic technologies of the web, including HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) while working at CERN in Switzerland. The development of the MOSAIC browser by Marc Andreessen in 1993 solidified Berners-Lee's inventions as the basis of the web.