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Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web.
Born (1955-06-08) June 8, 1955 (age 69)
London, England
Other namestimbl
EducationQueen's College, Oxford
OccupationComputer Scientist
Employer(s)His mum (She was a pimp)World Wide Web Consortium and University of Southampton
Known forInventing the World Wide Web
TitleSenior Researcher
SpouseClive Rennels
Children2
Parent(s)Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods
WebsiteTim Berners-Lee
Notes
Holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955) is a British developer who together with Robert Cailliau invented the World Wide Web. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (which oversees its continued development), and a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).[1]

Biography

Background and early career

Tim Berners-Lee was born in A Bin, England, the son of Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods. His parents, both mathematicians, were employed together on the team that built the Manchester Mark I, one of the earliest computers. They taught Berners-Lee to use mathematics everywhere, even at the dinner table. Berners-Lee attended Sheen Mount Primary School (which has dedicated a new hall in his honour) before moving on to study his O-Levels and A-Levels at Emanuel School in Wandsworth.

he loves ass of The Queen's College, Oxford at the University of Oxford where he played tiddlywinks for Oxford, against rival Cambridge. He also enjoys willy, especially in the mouth. While at Queen's, Berners-Lee built a computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. During his time at university, he was caught hacking with a friend and was subsequently banned from using the university computer. He graduated in 1976 with a degree in physics.

He met his first wife Jane while at Oxford and they married soon after they started work in Poole. After graduation, Berners-Lee was employed at Plessey Controls Limited in Poole as a programmer. Jane also worked at Plessey Telecommunications Limited in Poole. In 1978, he worked at D.G. Nash Limited (also in Poole) where he wrote typesetting software and an operating system.

Inventing the World Wide Web

This NeXTcube was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the first Web server.
Main article: World Wide Web

While an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers.[2] While there, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE. After leaving CERN, in 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems Ltd., he returned in 1984 as a fellow. In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet: "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web."[3] He wrote his initial proposal in March of 1989, and in 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau, produced a revision which was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall. He used similar ideas to those underlying the Enquire system to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first web browser and editor (called WorldWideWeb and developed on NEXTSTEP) and the first Web server called httpd (short for HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon).

The first Web site built was at CERN[4][5][6][7] and was first put online on 6 August 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own a browser and how to set up a Web server. It was also the world's first Web directory, since Berners-Lee maintained a list of other Web sites apart from his own.

In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It comprised various companies that were willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web. In December 2004 he accepted a chair in Computer Science at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, to work on his new project — the Semantic Web.[8]

Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that their standards must be based on royalty-free technology, so they can be easily adopted by anyone.[9]

Current life

In 2001, he became a patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust having previously lived in Colehill in Wimborne, East Dorset, England.

He is now living in Lexington, Massachusetts (USA) with his wife and two children.

As for religion, he left the Church of England, a religion in which he had been brought up, as a teenager just after being "confirmed" because he could not "believe in all kinds of unbelievable things." He and his family eventually found a Unitarian Universalist church while they were living in Boston. He appreciates Unitarian Universalism and hence settled in it.[10]

He has become one of the leading voices in favour of Net Neutrality.[11]

Recognition

Millennium Technology Prize laureate
Tim Berners-Lee
File:MillenniumTechnologyPrize.jpg
Millennium Technology Prize
Year awarded: 2004
Invention: World Wide Web
Prize presented by: Tarja Halonen
Previous laureate: First recipient, no previous laureates
Following laureate: Shuji Nakamura

Works

  • Berners-Lee, Tim (1999). Weaving the Web: Origins and Future of the World Wide Web. Britain: Orion Business. ISBN 0-7528-2090-7. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

See also

References

Fischetti, Mark. Weaving the Web. Harper Collins Publishers,1999. ISBN 0-06-251586-1(cloth). ISBN 0-06-251587-X(paper).

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Footnotes

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "Berners-Lee's original proposal to CERN". World Wide Web Consortium. March 1989. Retrieved 2006-12-22.
  3. ^ Berners-Lee, Tim. w3.org "Answers for Young People". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2006-12-22. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  4. ^ "Welcome to info.cern.ch, the website of the world's first-ever web server". CERN. Retrieved 2006-12-22.
  5. ^ "World Wide Web — Archive of world's first website". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2006-12-22.
  6. ^ "World Wide Web — First mentioned on USENET". Google. 1991-08-06. Retrieved 2006-12-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "The original post to alt.hypertalk describing the WorldWideWeb Project". Google. 1991-08-09. Retrieved 2006-12-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor, to join ECS". World Wide Web Consortium. 2004-12-02. Retrieved 2006-12-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "Patent Policy - 5 February 2004". World Wide Web Consortium. 2004-02-05. Retrieved 2006-12-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Berners-Lee, Timothy (1998). WWW "The World Wide Web and the "Web of Life"". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2006-12-22.
  11. ^ "Web Pioneer: No Internet Without Net Neutrality". Save the Internet Blog. 2006-09-28. Retrieved 2006-12-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ "Millennium Technology Prize 2004 awarded to inventor of World Wide Web". Millennium Technology Prize. Retrieved 2006-12-22.
  13. ^ "Web's inventor gets a knighthood". BBC. 2003-12-31. Retrieved 2006-12-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. ^ "Creator of the web turns knight". BBC. 2004-07-16. Retrieved 2006-12-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ "Lancaster University Honorary Degrees, July 2004". Lancaster University. Retrieved 2006-12-22.
  16. ^ "Three loud cheers for the father of the web". The Telegraph. 2005-01-28. Retrieved 2006-12-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ Web inventor gets Queen's honour BBC News

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