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.
