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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 ...
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.
Several developers used the NeXT platform to write pioneering programs. 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.
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor (1999) is a book written by Tim Berners-Lee describing how the World Wide Web was created and his role in it.
The World Wide Web Foundation, also known as the Web Foundation, is 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]
Ben Segal, Tim Berners-Lee, the Next, and Robert Cailliau celebrating the 20th anniversary of Berners-Lee's memorandum, titled "Information Management: A Proposal", to the management at CERN. [21] Segal's work on TCP/IP and CERN's acceptance of the Internet in 1989, enabled Tim Berners-Lee to develop the World Wide Web and its related protocols.
Tim Berners-Lee drew what he called the "metro": a diagram of the relationships between the existing systems (FTP, SMTP, HTTP, ...) in the form of a stylised map resembling that of the London Underground. That made me think that we needed to deal with a lot more hard computer science than our small team of four or five could intellectually handle.
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards organization which oversees and encourages the Web's continued development, co-director of the Web Science Trust, and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. [222] In 1994, Berners-Lee became one of only six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame. [223]