Tim Berners-Lee
Early life and education
Tim Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955) is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He was born in London to parents who both worked on the Manchester Mark I computer. He studied physics at Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in 1976.
Invention of the Web
While working as a software engineer at CERN in 1989, Berners-Lee proposed a system for sharing and linking information across a network using hypertext. He implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server in December 1990. He also wrote the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, and the first web server, later known as CERN httpd. The first website, describing the project, went live in August 1991.
Later work
Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1994 to develop open standards for the web. He holds the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and is a professor at the University of Oxford. He has received numerous honors, including a knighthood in 2004 and the Turing Award in 2016. He continues to advocate for a free and open web through the World Wide Web Foundation.