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Tim Berners-Lee at the Home Office, London, on 11 March 2010 By 2010, he created data.gov.uk alongside Nigel Shadbolt . Commenting on the Ordnance Survey data in April 2010, Berners-Lee said: "The changes signal a wider cultural change in government based on an assumption that information should be in the public domain unless there is a good ...
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.
The first website was created in August 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, a European nuclear research agency. Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb browser became publicly available the same month. By the end of 1992, there were ten websites. [ 1 ]
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 ...
Berners-Lee, Tim: Invented the World Wide Web and sent the first HTTP communication between client and server. [15] 1995 Blum, Manuel: Contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking [16] 1966 Böhm, Corrado: Theorized of the concept of structured programming. 1847 ...
The Virtual Library was started by Tim Berners-Lee creator of HTML and the World Wide Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. [1] Unlike commercial index sites, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are experts.
The invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, as an application on the Internet, [187] brought many social and commercial uses to what was previously a network of networks for academic and research institutions. [188] [189] The Web began to enter everyday use in 1993–4. [190]
For example, in 1990, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT Computer to develop the first web browser and web server. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] The video game series Doom , [ 92 ] and Quake were developed by id Software using NeXT computers.