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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 ...
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.
In December 2015, Simon & Schuster published a revised electronic edition of The Innovators, which corrected significant errors and omissions in the original edition's Chapter 9, which covers software. Isaacson – who in researching the book interviewed Bill Gates but not Paul Allen – had assigned virtually all credit for the company's early ...
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 ...
Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (born 1955) is a British physicist and computer scientist. [219] In 1980, while working at CERN, he proposed a project using hypertext to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. [220] While there, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE. [221]
The Open Data Institute (ODI) is a non-profit private company limited by guarantee, based in the United Kingdom. [2] Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt in 2012, the ODI's mission is to connect, equip and inspire people around the world to innovate with data.
The programme team interviewed a number of people who have played a part in the development of the web, including its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and founders of notable brands; Bill Gates , Steve Wozniak , Chad Hurley , Jimmy Wales , Stewart Brand , Biz Stone and Evan Williams , Peter Thiel and Martha Lane Fox (lastminute.com).
The source code for the world's first web browser, called WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion with the World Wide Web), is released into the public domain by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. 1992. The first SMS message in the world is sent over the UK's GSM network. 1995. The world's first national DNA database is developed. [84] 1996