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1. Tim Berners-Lee
The inventor of the World Wide Web

2. Structure
1. Curriculum vitae
2. The invention of the World Wide Web
3. Awards and honors

3. 1. Curriculum vitae
Name: Timothy John Berners-Lee
Born: 08.06.1955 in London
Parents worked on Ferranti Mark 1

4. 1. Curriculum vitae
1976
 Bachelor of arts in physics on
College Oxford
 Start work as an engineer at a
telecommunications company
1978
 Software Developer at D. G Nash Limited
 He wrote software for printers
1980
 Employer: Cern
 First prototype of the WWW (Inquire)
1980
 Head of Department at Image
Computer Systems
 He worked on a remote procedure call
1984 Employer : Cern

5. 2. The invention of the WWW
1969  Invention of the Internet (Arpanet)
 Internet = Interconnected Networks
1989 12.03.1989: Idea for the WWW
1990 Publication of the hypertext concept
… Subsequent appearances:
 Language HTML
 HTTP protocol
 URL concept
 First browser "WorldWideWeb"
 First web server "CERN httpd"
 NeXTStep operating system

6. 2. The Invention of the WWW
1994  Foundation of the „World Wide Web
Consortium“ (W3C)
Further development of the WWW
Adopts only patent-free standards

7. 2004: He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
2009: "Foreign Associate" from the National
Academy of Sciences (USA)
Added to the list of the "100 most important people
of the 20th century"
Olympic Games 2012: honored as the inventor of the
WWW
2016: Turing Award
3. Awards and honors

8. A world without the Internet?