IT Biography
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1. Sir Timothy John
"Tim" Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
2.
Timothy John Berners Lee was born
on 8 June 1955. He grew up in London. He studied physics at Oxford University (While at Oxford University, he was caught hacking with
a friend and was banned from using the university computer) and became a
software engineer.
3.
After graduation, he worked at
Plessey Telecommunications from 1976 as a programmer and In December 1980,
while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, he
first described the concept of a global system, based on the concept of
'hypertext', that would allow researchers anywhere to share information. He
also built a prototype called 'Enquire'.
4.
In 1984, Berners Lee's returned to
CERN on a full-time basis, in 1989, CERN was the largest internet node in
Europe. In the same year, Berners Lee published a paper called 'Information
Management: A Proposal' in which he connected hypertext with the Internet to
create a system for sharing and distributing information. He named it the World
Wide Web.
5.
He also created the first web
browser and editor. The world's first website http://info.cern.ch was built at
CERN on 6 August 1991.
The first web
page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. It explained the World Wide Web concept and
gave users an introduction to getting started with their own websites.
6. In
1994, Berners Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He has served as director of
the consortium since then. He has also served as a patron of the East Dorset
Heritage Trust. He has also worked as a senior research scientist at LCS (Laboratory of Computer Science, MIT) which has
now become the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
7.
Berners Lee has received many honors.
In 1994 he became one of the six members of the World Wide Web Hall of fame.
And right after one year he won the Kilby Foundation’s “Young Innovator of the
Year” Award. In 1999 Time Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Important
People of the 20th Century. He was also named in BBC’s list of the
100 Greatest Britons in 2002. He was also inducted into the Internet Hall of
Fame by the Internet Society in 2012.
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