Diff for Tim Berners-Lee

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== 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]].

== External links ==
* [https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ Tim Berners-Lee at W3C]

[[Category:British computer scientists]]
[[Category:World Wide Web]]
[[Category:Knights Bachelor]]
[[Category:Internet pioneers]]