Tim Berners-Lee
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Full Name: Timothy Berners-Lee
Nicknames: TimBL
Born: 8 June 1955
Birthplace: London, England
Best known for: Inventing the World Wide Web
Tim wrote the program of the World Wide Web software himself in 1990. And he made it available on the internet in 1991. In 1999 the Web became very popular and in 2003
Queen Elizabeth II announced that Berners-Lee would be made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his work on the Web.
A few years after he made the World Wide web, he observed that the slashes after th https was useless ( https://www. )