TIM BERNERS - LEE

                                                                                  

Tim Berners-Lee, in full Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, (born June 8, 1955, London , England), British computer scientist, generally credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web In 2004 he was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth || of the United Kingdom and the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. Computing came naturally to Berners-Lee, as both of his parents worked on the Ferranti Mark |, the first commercial computer.

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.The first website at CERN – and in the world – was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer. In 2013, CERN launched a project to restore this first ever website: info.cern.ch .

On 30 April 1993, CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain. Later, CERN made a release available with an open licence, a more sure way to maximise its dissemination. These actions allowed the web to flourish. Berners-Lee married Nancy Carlson, an American computer programmer, in 1990. She was also working in Switzerland at the World Health Organisation. They had two children and divorced in 2011. In 2014, he married Rosemary Leith in London. Leith is a Canadian internet and banking entrepreneur and a founding director of Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation. The couple also collaborate on venture capital to support artificial intelligence companies.

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