b. 1955
Tim Berners-Lee
United KingdomComputing & ITCommunications
Background
An English computer scientist working at CERN.
Contribution
Invented the World Wide Web (1989–1991): the HTTP protocol, HTML, URLs, and the first browser and server — then gave it to the world royalty-free.
Popular credit vs. the record
The Web is distinct from the Internet itself (the underlying network, developed earlier by many, including Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn's TCP/IP).
Associated inventions
Collaborators & contemporaries
Associated organizations
Sources & further reading
Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.
- A short history of the WebCERN · Primary source
- World Wide Web Consortium — standards & historyW3C · Professional body
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