March 2014
Born
8 June
1955
London,
United
Kingdom
Nationality
British
Alma mater
The
Queen's
College,
Oxford
Occupation
Computer
Scientist
Known for
Inventing
the World
Wide Web
Title
Professor
Timothy Berners Lee
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, is a
British computer scientist, best known as the
inventor of the World Wide Web. He implemented
the first successful communication between
a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and
server via the Internet. He made a proposal for an
information management system in March 1989
and was allowed to test the same. He is also the
founder of W3C and W3C schools.
Berners-Lee was born in southwest London,
England, on 8 June 1955. His parents worked on
the first commercially built computer, Ferranti
Mark 1. He attended Primary School, and then
went on to attend south west London's
independent Emanuel School from 1969 to
1973. As a child, he learnt about electronics by
tinkering with a model railway. He studied at The
Queen's College of the University of Oxford, where
he received a first-class degree in physics.
After graduation, Berners-Lee started working as
an engineer at the telecommunications
company Plessey in Poole. Berners-Lee worked as
an independent contractor at CERN from June to
December 1980. While there, he proposed a
project based on the concept of hypertext, to
facilitate sharing and updating information among
researchers.
To demonstrate this, he built a prototype system
named ENQUIRE. In 1989, CERN was the largest
Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an
opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet.
Berners-Lee wrote his initial proposal in March
1989, and in 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau
he produced a revision which was accepted. He
created the World Wide Web, for which he designed
and built the first Web browser. His software also
functioned as an editor (called WorldWideWeb,
running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and
facilitated to operate as the first Web server, CERN
HTTP-daemon. This gave birth to what we know
today as World Wide Web(WWW).
Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever
web site and web server, running on a NeXT
computer at CERN. There are no screenshots
available of this original page however you may find
a later copy (1992) on the World Wide Web
Consortium website.
In 1994, Berners-Lee founded