Tim Berners-Lee
By Joyce Escabarte
About Tim Berners - Lee
He also created the first web browser and editor. The world's first website, http://info.cern.ch, was launched on 6 August 1991. It explained the World Wide Web concept and gave users an introduction to getting started with their own websites. People has been creating their own websites for other people to use it e.g Facebook, Twitter and lots more. Other companies has made different types of computers and laptops through the past generations.
He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He was a Director of the Web Science Trust (WST) launched in 2009 to promote research and education in Web Science, the multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology.
Tim is a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
Website: http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web
Location: London, United Kingdom
Phone: +1 (617) 253 5702
Twitter: @Timberners_Lee
Tim Berners-Lee Quotes:
Hacker quote~
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Mistakes quote~
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Values quote~
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Cube machine
Opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games
WWW / World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee - Today
Tim Berners -Lee is currently the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the group that sets technical standards for the Web. He has recently written a book entitled,'Weaving The Web: The original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor.