Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web who made our present world possible, and it is because of his contributions that the World Wide Web is used by people all over the world. He is a computer scientist who revolutionized human life.
Born in London, England, Berners-Lee's parents were both computer scientists and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercial computer. As a young man, Berners-Lee studied physics at Queen's College, Oxford, and then worked for a number of high-technology companies in the UK. In 1980 Berners-Lee came to work at CERN, where he developed the program called Enquire, which applied hypertext technology. At the end of 1980, Berners-Lee went to work for a computer company, where he gained experience with computer networks. Later, Berners-Lee returned to CERN and in 1989 designed and built the first Web browser and the first Web server. Berners-Lee has been a dedicated advocate of Internet freedom. He founded the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994 and later declared that all technology proposed by the Consortium would be free of charge. This is one of the reasons why Berners-Lee is so respected, instead of using the World Wide Web to make a fortune for himself, he chose to contribute his inventions for free and make them available to all people in the world. At the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, Berners-Lee tweeted This is for everyone
from an old computer(Tim Berners-Lee 2022), demonstrating his original intention to contribute his work, the World Wide Web, to all of humanity.
The World Wide Web is at the heart of the development of the information age. As the inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee occupies a crucial position in the field of computer science. He was named one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century by Time magazine, and in 2016 Berners-Lee received the 2016 Turing Award for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale.
( Haigh, 2016). It was Berners-Lee who established the most fundamental web standards, which are now known as URL, HTML, and HTTP so that everyone could develop new servers and new browsers and write web pages using the HTML language.
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