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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), [1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford [2] and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
Berners-Lee receives the Freedom of the City of London, at the Guildhall, in 2014. Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", the inventor of the World Wide Web, has received a number of awards and honours.
This NeXT Computer was used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server. The Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN . [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He was motivated by the problem of storing, updating, and finding documents and data files in that large and constantly changing organization ...
ENQUIRE was a software project written in 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, [2] which was the predecessor to the World Wide Web. [2] [3] [4] It was a simple hypertext program [4] that had some of the same ideas as the Web and the Semantic Web but was different in several important ways.
Led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the A4AI seeks to make Internet access more affordable so that access is broadened in the developing world, where only 31% of people are online. Google will help to decrease Internet access prices so they fall below the UN Broadband Commission's worldwide target of 5% of monthly income.
The World Wide Web Foundation, also known as the Web Foundation, was a US-based international nonprofit organization advocating for a free and open web for everyone.It was cofounded by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and Rosemary Leith. [2]
In 1994, Berners-Lee became one of only six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame. [223] In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work. [ 224 ] In April 2009, he was elected a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences , based in Washington, D.C. [ 225 ] [ 226 ] In 2012, Berners ...
Tim Berners-Lee later restated these principles at a 2009 TED conference, again paraphrased along the following lines: [4] All conceptual things should have a name starting with HTTP . Looking up an HTTP name should return useful data about the thing in question in a standard format.