Sir Timothy John
"Tim" Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (born in London, England, June
8, 1955) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and the chairman of the World
Wide Web Consortium, which regulates development.
In 1980, when he was an
independent contractor at CERN, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the
concept of hypertext (hypertext) to facilitate sharing and updating information
among researchers. With the help of Robert Cailliau him a prototype system
named Enquire.
After leaving CERN to work at
John Poole's Image Computer Systems Ltd, he returned in 1984 as a research
fellow. He used similar ideas he had used on Enquire to create the World Wide
Web, where he designed and built the first browser (named WorldWideWeb and
developed on NeXTSTEP) and the first Web server called httpd.
The first website created
Berners-Lee (and therefore it is also the first website) address at
http://info.cern.ch/ (already filed) and put online for the first time on
August 6, 1991.
In 1994, Berners-Lee founded
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Until now, Berners-Lee still
remains humble and does not want to get popular status. Many still do not know
the power of this man's work, the World Wide Web.
One of the greatest
contributions in advancing the World Wide Web is not to patent it so that they
can be used freely.
On July 16, 2004 he was given
the title of honorary KBE by Queen Elizabeth II in honor of his services.
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