Timothy Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist known for inventing the World Wide Web. He was born in 1955 in London and studied physics at university. While working as a contractor at CERN, he proposed a system using hypertext to allow researchers to share and update information. This led to him creating the first website in 1991 and developing HTML, URLs, and HTTP - the foundation of the modern web. He now works to improve and expand access to the web through organizations like the World Wide Web Foundation.

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Timothy Berners-Lee
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Timothy Berners-Lee
• Is a British computer scientist
• Was born on June 8th 1955 in London
• Best known as the
inventor of the WWW

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Early life
• Was born in London, England to Conway and Mary
Berners-Lee
• His parents were working on the first commercially-
built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1
• Learnt about electronics from tinkering with a model
railway
• In 1976, received a first-class degree in physics

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Early career
• After graduation, worked as an independent
contractor at CERN
• Proposed a project base on the concept of hypertext
• Share and update information among researchers
• Created a prototype named ENQUIRE

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Early stages of the WWW
• Worked 3 years in a computer networking company
• In 1989, he went back to CERN
• First attempts of the WWW was created in 1989 and
1990
• He used the ideas from ENQUIRE
• Also created the first web browser
• First web server

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First ever website
• He created the first ever website in CERN
• Was first put online on 6 August 1991
• http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

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First ever website

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After WWW
• In 1994, founded the W3C (World Wide Web
Consortium) at MIT
• Idea was to create standards to improve the quality of
the Web
• In 2004, joined the Southhampton University to work
on the Semantic Web
• In a Times article in 2009, he admitted that the pair of
slashes "//„ were unnecessary

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Current work
• In June 2009 then British Prime Minister Gordon
Brown announced Berners-Lee would work for the
government
• In November 2009, he launched the World Wide Web
Foundation
• Dedicated to the improvement and availability of the
World Wide Web
• Berners-Lee is President of the Open Data Institute

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