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Sir Timothy ''Tim'' John Berners-Lee, KBE, FRS (TimBL or TBL)
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oversees its continued development.
Contents: [Introduction] [Background and early career] [World Wide Web] [Weaving the
Background and early
career Web] [Recognition] [Current life] [Works] [Notes] [References] [External links]
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alumnus of Queen`s College, Oxford University, where he built
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where he wrote typesetting software and an operating system.
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Margaret Thatcher he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE.
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After leaving CERN in 1980 to work at John Poole`s Image
Computer Systems Ltd., he returned in 1984 as a fellow. In
1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and
Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the
Internet: ``I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to
the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide
Web.`` . He used similar ideas to those underlying the Enquire
system to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed
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put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about
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and how to set up a Web server. It was also the world`s first
Web directory, since Berners-Lee maintained a list of other
Web sites apart from his own.
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which is still discovering its full potential. Perhaps his greatest
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee`s genius is not confined to, or prejudiced Borg
by, computer technology. In a 2005 interview with BBC
Television, he made a statement which shows his opinion of the
reach of the internet as an informational resource.
Recognition
The University of Southampton was the first to recognise
Berners-Lee`s contribution to developing the World Wide Web
with an honorary degree in 1996 and he currently holds a Chair
of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and
Computer Science. He was the first holder of the 3Com
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In 1997 he was made an Officer in the Order of the British
Empire, became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001, and The Notebook (New Line
received the Japan Prize in 2002. In 2002 he received the Platinum Series)
Principe de Asturias award in the category of Scientific and
Technical Research. He shared the prize with Lawrence
Roberts, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf. Also in 2002, the British
public named him among the 100 Greatest Britons of all time,
according to a BBC poll spanning the entire history of the
nation.
Current life
In 2001, he became a patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust
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Notes
References
>> Tim Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide
Web (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) Ann Gaines (Mitchell
Lane Publishers, 2001) ISBN 1584150963
>> Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web
(Ferguson`s Career Biographies) Melissa Stewart (Ferguson
Publishing Company, 2001) ISBN 089434367X children`s
biography
>> How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web
Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University
Press, 2000) ISBN 0192862073
>> Sir Tim Berners-Lee
>> Tim Berners-Lee laureate of the Millennium Technology
Prize
>> Profile of Tim Berners-Lee – patron of East Dorset Heritage
Trust
>> Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor, to join ECS
>> School of Electronics and Computer Science at the
University of Southampton
>> Audio interview - 2005-11-19
>> BBC2 Newsnight – Video interview clip of Berners-Lee on
the read/write Web
>> Technology Review interview
>> Audio interview by Christopher Lydon
External links
>> Berners-Lee`s home page
>> Berners-Lee`s blog
>> Berners-Lee`s book Weaving The Web which details his
views on the history and future of the Web.
>> World Wide Web Consortium
>> The W3 History page
>> Berners-Lee`s original proposal to CERN
>> Archive of the world`s first Web site (November 13, 1990)
>> Tim Berners-Lee at the Notable Names Database
>> Berners-Lee talk entited ``The Future Of The Web`` given at
the Oxford internet institute High resolution MP4 Low
Resolution MP4 Slides for the talk
>> Tim Berners-Lee considers new TLD`s harmful
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