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Tim Berners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955 in London, England. His father, Conway Berners-Lee, was also a computer scientist and member of the team that developed Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercial computer, and his mother, Mary Lee Woods, was a programmer who wrote programs for Ferranti Mark 1. His parents met and married.

Tim attended Sheen Mount Primary School, a secondary School at Emanuel School in south West London from 1969 to 1973 (aged 14-18) (a quarter of its pupils were funded by the UK central Budget and became an independent corporation in 1975). As a teenager, Tim was a railway buff and got his first taste of electronics by welding model railways.

From 1973 to 1976 (aged 18-21) Tim studied at Queen’s College, Oxford, gaining a First-class degree in Physics with distinction.

After leaving university, Tim went to work as an engineer at Plessey, a communications company, in Poole, Dorset (aged 21-23).

In 1978, Tim joined D. G. Nash in Ferndown, Where he helped develop software for typesetting printers.

25 years old (Photo credit:En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Be…

June to December 1980 (age 25), Tim worked as an “independent contractor” in CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland for a short period of six months. During this time, he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, designed to make it easier for researchers to share and update information. To demonstrate, he developed a prototype system called ENQUIRE, a prototype of the Web.

After leaving CERN at the end of 1980, Tim joined Image Computer Systems, Ltd in Bournemouth. During his three years at the company, Tim was in charge of technology, working on projects involving “real-time remote procedure calls”. It was this project that familiarized him with computer networks. In 1984 (at the age of 29), Tim returned to CERN as a graduate Fellow.

In 1989, CENR became one of the biggest nodes on the Internet in Europe, giving Tim (34) the opportunity to graft the concept of hypertext onto the Internet. He wrote a proposal in March 1989 and repeated it in 1990, winning approval from Mike Sendall, his manager at the time.

And that suggestion was based on the idea behind ENQUIRE, the World Wide Web. Tim wrote the first Web browser, WorldWideWeb, which was also a Web editor running on the NeXTSTEP operating system, and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd.

First Web Server

The first website was also born at CERN, which was launched on 6 August 1991 (info.cern.ch). The first page address of this site is: info.cern.ch/hypertext/W… , which summarizes information about the WWW project, including what hypertext is, how to write a web page, and even how to search a web page. Of course, the web page didn’t start out like this.

In 1994 (age 39), Tim founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at THE Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which brings together industry vendors to develop Web standards and promote the development of the Web. Tim shared his ideas for free, and no vendor had to ask him for royalties. The W3C decided to base its standards on royalty-free technology to minimize the barriers to use.

In 2001, aged 46, Tim sponsored the East Dorset Heritage Trust because he had lived in East Dorset. In December 2004 (aged 49), he accepted a teaching position in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, researching the Semantic Web.

In October 2009 (54 years old), Tim admitted in the press that the two slashes (//) in the url were unnecessary. “Forget it, I thought it was a good idea at the time,” he told reporters.

In June 2009, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that Berners-Lee was responsible for promoting data openness and accessibility through the Web in the UK government. He and Nigel Shadbolt are the two principals behind data.gov. UK. The British government uses the program to make almost all the data it collects publicly available for free. Speaking in April 2010, when ordnance Survey’s data were made public, Tim said: “This is a profound change in the administrative culture of government, showing that unless there is a good reason, information should be available to the public, not the other way around.” He continued: “Greater openness, accountability and transparency in government will provide more opportunities for people and make it easier for individuals to participate directly in matters that matter to them.”

In November 2009, Tim founded the World Wide Web Foundation to “advance the Web’s ability to empower people by initiating change initiatives and building local capacity to leverage Web media for positive change.”

Until May 2012, Tim was co-chair of the Open Data Institute with Nigel Shadbolt.

In October 2013, Tim spearheaded the formation of the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), with Google, Facebook, Intel, and Microsoft as members working with Tim to reduce Internet access costs in the developing world. The goal is to meet the United Nations Broadband Commission’s standard of less than 5 percent of monthly income.

In 2014 (Image credit:En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Be…

In October 2016, Tim joined the Department of Computing at the University of Oxford as a Professor and fellow of Christ Church College.

In 2016 (age 61), Tim received the Turing Award for “inventing the World Wide Web, the first Web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms that enabled the Web to grow at scale.”

Tim is also a faculty professor at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, where he leads the Decentralized Information Group.