Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy John
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (1955-), a British-educated scientist known as the creator of the Internet’s World Wide Web. In 1989, while working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics center, located near Geneva, Switzerland), Berners-Lee described an information system that would create a web of information. In 1990, he designed a suite of tools that now define our use of the Internet: the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the language computers use to communicate hypertext documents; a scheme to give documents addresses on the Internet that he called a Universal Resource Identifier (URI), now known as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL); and a client program (browser) to retrieve and view hypertext documents that he called the "World Wide Web." Berners-Lee set up the first web server known as "info.cern.ch." at CERN.
Further Reading
Tim Berners-Lee-Personal Site
Johnson, Bobbie, Aug. 12, 2005. The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee. The Guardian.
Tim Berners-Lee : The Man who Founded WWW
2 Comments
Lyle Birkey wrote: 03-29-2012 10:49:06
Thanks for the additional info, AimBin. I've added your resource to the "Further Reading" section of this article.
AimBin AB wrote: 03-27-2012 05:27:14
I have read this article ..... a good one... but i have also found some interesting material at http://freefeast.info/personality-motivation/tim-berners-lee-the-man-who-founded-www/ regarding Sir Tim Berners Lee .... Thought you people might like it...