Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee was born on June 8th, 1955. He is credited with the creation of the World Wide Web, a hyper text server that ran under the tag "httpd" (where now we run under "http" or "https") and the "www" in front of most websites is an acronym for World Wide Web.
"The frustration was all this unlocked potential" -TED Talks
A British citizen by birth, his development of the web as we know it started in 1989 at the CERN research lab in Geneva, Switzerland. Berners-Lee proposed the idea for the World Wide Web to allow researches to work together and make it easier to share ideas. He was quite frustrated with the convoluted and difficult tasks of connecting and accessing individual computers as they were often incompatible with each other. It was very tedious and he knew it could be easier. He started work on his project in October of 1990 and released W^3 within CERN in December of that same year. The internet at large received it in the Summer of the following year.
Sir Berners-Lee has received many awards for his work in creating the World Wide Web, including Being Knighted in 1997, being named "One of the 100 greatest minds of the century" by Time Magazine, being inducted into the "Internet Hall of Fame" and numerous more awards and prizes for his technical innovations in the field of communication. The total list can be found here, and it numbers some 56 different awards. He is currently a senior researcher at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab.
"Here is my hope.
The Web is a tool for communicating.
With the Web, you can find out what other people mean. You can find out where they are coming from.
The Web can help people understand each other.
Think about most of the bad things that have happened between people in your life. Maybe most of them come down to one person not understanding another. Even wars.
Let's use the web to create neat new exciting things.
Let's use the Web to help people understand each other." -Tim Berners-Lee on his FAQ
"The frustration was all this unlocked potential" -TED Talks
A British citizen by birth, his development of the web as we know it started in 1989 at the CERN research lab in Geneva, Switzerland. Berners-Lee proposed the idea for the World Wide Web to allow researches to work together and make it easier to share ideas. He was quite frustrated with the convoluted and difficult tasks of connecting and accessing individual computers as they were often incompatible with each other. It was very tedious and he knew it could be easier. He started work on his project in October of 1990 and released W^3 within CERN in December of that same year. The internet at large received it in the Summer of the following year.
Sir Berners-Lee has received many awards for his work in creating the World Wide Web, including Being Knighted in 1997, being named "One of the 100 greatest minds of the century" by Time Magazine, being inducted into the "Internet Hall of Fame" and numerous more awards and prizes for his technical innovations in the field of communication. The total list can be found here, and it numbers some 56 different awards. He is currently a senior researcher at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab.
"Here is my hope.
The Web is a tool for communicating.
With the Web, you can find out what other people mean. You can find out where they are coming from.
The Web can help people understand each other.
Think about most of the bad things that have happened between people in your life. Maybe most of them come down to one person not understanding another. Even wars.
Let's use the web to create neat new exciting things.
Let's use the Web to help people understand each other." -Tim Berners-Lee on his FAQ