Tim Berners-Lee
Timothy John Berners-Lee (TimBL or TBL to his admirers) (b. June 8, 1955) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and head of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.
He was born in London, England, and is an alumnus of Oxford University.
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In 1989, Berners-Lee proposed a project to his employer CERN, based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. With help from Robert Cailliau he built a prototype system named Enquire. Later he used similar ideas to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first browser (called WorldWideWeb and developed on NeXTSTEP) and the first web server.
The first web site Tim built (and therefore the first web site) was at info.cern.ch and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the internet was, how to get your own browser, how to set up your own web server and so on.
It was also the world's first web directory, since Tim maintained a list of other web sites apart from his own.
While the component ideas of the World Wide Web are simple, Berners-Lee's insight was to combine them in a way which is still exploring its full potential. Perhaps his greatest single contribution, though, was to make his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due.
In his book Weaving the Web, several recurring themes are apparent:
Proposal and Prototype
The First Website
No Royalties
Weaving the Web
See Also
External links
