Tim Berners-Lee

The man who created the internet

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Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, is a British computer scientist, known for being the father of the World Wide Web.

Here's a time line of Tim Berners-Lee:

  • 1955 -Born in London
  • 1990 -Established the first communication between a client and a server using the HTTP protocol
  • 1994 -Founded the MIT-based World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to oversee and standardize the development of the technologies that underpin the Web and enable the Internet to function
  • 1997 -Was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2001, and received a Japanese Award in 2002
  • 2002 -Received the Prince of Asturias Award (he shared this award with Lawrence Roberts, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf) in the category of scientific and technical research