Tim Berners Lee
Born in 1955, Tim Berners Lee is an English computer scientist renowned for the creation of what we all know as the World Wide Web, he is also widely known for his the creation and development of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI’s), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).[1] His work throughout his lifetime has created the foundations for the technology we use in our day-to-day lives, his technology allowed for the global expansion of knowledge through sharing and publishing websites, Tim Berners Lee initially proposed the hypertext project in 1989 while he was working at the company CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.[2]
While Tim Berners Lee was studying computer science at Queens College in Oxford University he created his own computer which allowed him to create and develop the World Wide Web and Hyper Text Markup Language, this was made up of an old TV as a monitor, TTL gates and an M6800 processor all put together with a soldering iron. After graduating in 2004, Tim Berners Lee went on to have an extremely productive and successful career in computer science and the development of the World Wide Web, he founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1994 which is an international establishment dedicated to web standards. Over a decade later, Tim Berners Lee went on to become the director of the non-profit organisation World Wide Web Foundation in 2009 who focus on allowing everyone to be able to access the internet without having to pay money to use it.[1] In addition to his development of the World Wide Web, Time Berners Lee has also taught at some of the most renowned and prestigious universities and colleges around the world such as Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
References & Sources
- www.w3.org. 2021. No page title. Available at: https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/.
- Wikipedia. 2021. Tim Berners-Lee – Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee.