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The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, turns 61 years old today. Berners-Lee was exposed to computers early, as his parents worked on the first commercially available computer, the Ferranti Mark I. In 1989, while working at CERN, Berners-Lee invented the Web.
The idea was to allow people to exchange information over the internet without having to email each other. He set up the world's first website, complete with hypertext to access other pages. He wrote software for a Web server and browser. CERN released the World Wide Web software into the public domain on April 30, 1993. Berners-Lee is director of the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium and founding director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which seeks to ensure access for people around the world.
Reference:
http://webfoundation.org/about/sir-tim-berners-lee/
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The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, turns 61 years old today. Berners-Lee was exposed to computers early, as his parents worked on the first commercially available computer, the Ferranti Mark I. In 1989, while working at CERN, Berners-Lee invented the Web.
The idea was to allow people to exchange information over the internet without having to email each other. He set up the world's first website, complete with hypertext to access other pages. He wrote software for a Web server and browser. CERN released the World Wide Web software into the public domain on April 30, 1993. Berners-Lee is director of the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium and founding director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which seeks to ensure access for people around the world.
Reference:
http://webfoundation.org/about/sir-tim-berners-lee/
#history #TimBL #web #science
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The inventor of the World Wide Web and one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century’, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a scientist and academic whose visionary and innovative work has transformed almost every aspect of our lives.
Having invented the Web in 1989 while working at CERN and subsequently working to ensure it was made freely available to all, Berners-Lee is now dedicated to enhancing and protecting the Web’s future. He is a Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which seeks to ensure the Web serves humanity by establishing it as a global public good and a basic right. He is also Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a global Web standards organization he founded in 1994 to lead the Web to its full potential. In 2012 he co-founded the Open Data Institute (ODI) which advocates for Open Data in the UK and globally. Sir Tim has advised a number of governments and corporations on ongoing digital strategies. A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim presently holds academic posts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab), (USA) and the University of Southampton (UK.)
Sir Tim has received multiple accolades in recent years. These include receiving the first Queen’ Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2013, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and being knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth in 2004. He has received over 10 honorary doctorates, is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Finland Millennium Prize in 2004. In 2007, Berners-Lee was awarded the UK’s Order of Merit – a personal gift of the monarch limited to just 24 living recipients. In 2012, he played a starring role in the opening ceremony for the Olympics, where, in front of an audience of some 900 million, he tweeted: “This is for everyone”.
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