Tim Berners-Lee

His Role on the Web
Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist and physics major that has been credited for inventing the World Wide Web (W3).

While employed by CERN in Switzerland, he suggested a project based of the use of “hypertext.” As an independent contractor in the company since 1980, sharing information with researchers in different locations was essential to his job. Internet connection between a few computers was possible even in the 1960’s, but limited to local and select servers.

Berners-Lee felt there was enough technology to make the connection wider. Robert Cailliau helped him produced the first browser and web server, World Wide Web, in 1990. When put online in 1991,“Info.cern.ch” was among one of the first web pages uploaded.

With the creation of the World Wide Web, hypertext was viewable anywhere on the internet.



Personal Information
 Date of Birth: June 8, 1955 Place of Birth: London, England Education: Emanuel School, Queen’s College (Oxford University) Spouses: Jane Northcote (divorced), Nancy Carlson (divorced), Rosemary Leith (present) Number of Children: 2 (with Nancy Carlson) Spirituality: Unitarian 