Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
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Tim Berners-Lee (Sir Timothy Berners-Lee), 1955-, British computer scientist, b. London, grad. The Queen's College, Oxford (B.A. 1976). He joined CERN , near Geneva, Switzerland, as a consultant software engineer in 1960. While there he wrote for his own private use a program for storing information including using random associations; this program formed the conceptual basis for the future development of the World Wide Web . In 1989, he proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web; it was to be designed to allow people to work together by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents. He wrote the first Web server and the first client, a hypertext browser-editor, and defined the URL, HTTP and HTML specifications on which the Web depends.
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