Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who, while working at the CERN research laboratory in 1989, invented the World Wide Web, proposing a system of linked hypertext documents accessible over the internet. He created the foundational technologies that made the web usable, including the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HyperText Markup Language (HTML), and the first web browser and web server software. The web Berners-Lee created went on to become the primary platform through which text, images, audio and video are published and distributed as digital media worldwide, and he later founded the World Wide Web Consortium to steward open technical standards for it.
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Defining ContributionInventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, URL system and HTTP 1 Connections
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP.
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1955-06-08
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is an English computer scientist
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inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP
- Milestones Credited: World Wide Web Enters the Public Domain
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