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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.
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.
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]
There are a number of technical challenges to be surmounted to accomplish decentralizing the web, according to Berners-Lee's vision. [15] Rather than using a centralized spoke–hub distribution paradigm, decentralized peer-to-peer networking is implemented in a manner that adds more control and performance features than traditional peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent.
Rosemary Blaire Leith, Lady Berners-Lee (born September 1961), [2] is a Canadian-born British director of both for-profit and non-profit organizations. [1] She co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation in 2009 with Sir Tim Berners-Lee , [ 3 ] who became her husband in 2014.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research in October 1994. [4] It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science with support from the European Commission, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had pioneered the ARPANET, the most ...
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 . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] He was motivated by the problem of storing, updating, and finding documents and data files in that large and constantly changing organization ...