Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the continued development of the web.
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is credited with creating the first web browser, the first web server, and the first web page. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, which works to promote the open web and its use for the benefit of all.
Born in London in 1955, Berners-Lee studied physics at Oxford University, where he developed an interest in computers. After graduating, he worked at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, where he developed the concept of the World Wide Web. He wrote the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, in 1990, and the first web server, CERN httpd, in 1991. He also wrote the first web page, which was published on August 6, 1991.
In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international organization that develops web standards and protocols. He also founded the World Wide Web Foundation in 2009, which works to promote the open web and its use for the benefit of all.
In addition to his work on the web, Berners-Lee has been involved in a number of other projects. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses on the web and its applications. He is also a director of the World Wide Web Foundation, and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Media Lab.
Berners-Lee has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the Millennium Technology Prize, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper Prize, and the Turing Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004, and was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012. He was also named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2008.