Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (born 1955) is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He proposed an information management system in March 1989, implemented the first Web browser and Web server, and achieved the first successful HTTP client-server communication in November 1990. He founded and is director emeritus of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and is a professor at the University of Oxford and professor emeritus at MIT.
Biography
Tim Berners-Lee studied physics at Oxford and worked as a software engineer before joining CERN, the European physics laboratory near Geneva. In 1989 he proposed a system of linked documents to share information between researchers.
By the end of 1990 he had written the first web browser and web server and defined HTML, HTTP and URLs. CERN put the World Wide Web into the public domain in 1993, and it spread rapidly.
In 1994 he founded the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT to set web standards. He was knighted in 2004 and received the Turing Award in 2016. He has campaigned for an open web and for people's control over their own data.
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