Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John, known by the name of Tim Berners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955. He is also recognized as TimBL. He is a British computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web. In March 1989 he prepared a plan for an information management system. On 25 December, 1990, through the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN, he implemented the first victorious communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server using the Internet.

Now Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and a senior investigator and holder of the founders chair at the MIT computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory. Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his revolutionary work in 2004. He was also privileged as the ‘Inventor of the World Wide Web’ in a division of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.

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