Tim Berners-Lee

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist born on June 8, 1955, in London, England. He is renowned for inventing the World Wide Web, a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the internet. Berners-Lee's work began with the development of Enquire, a program that stored information in files with connections or "links." He returned to CERN in 1984 and proposed a global hypertext system in 1989, leading to the creation of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee developed the first web browser and server, writing the software between 1990 and 1991. He founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1994 to oversee web standards. His innovations include HTTP, HTML, and URLs, which remain foundational to the web. Berners-Lee has received numerous honors, including a knighthood and the Millennium Technology Prize. He continues to advocate for an open and accessible internet, ensuring his creation remains a universal platform for information sharing.