Tim Berners-Lee is one of the top IT people in the whole world and the master mind behind the invention of the World Wide Web . Director of the Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium. He is also a senior researcher and owner of the 3Com Founders Chair at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Tim Berners-Lee was born on 8th June, 1955 in London. Both his parents Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods were renowned mathematician and worked together with the team that built one of the earliest computers named Manchester Mark l. Tim Berners-Lee's initial education started at the Sheen Mount Primary School. Later on he completed his O and A levels from Emanuel School in Wandsworth.
Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Oxford University in 1976 with physics as honours subject. After completion he joined the Plessey Controls Limited as a programmer. He was later employed by the D.G. Nash Limited in 1978 and wrote typesetting software and an operating system.
The first web browser and editor called the World Wide Web (www) and the first Web server called Hyper Text Transfer Protocol daemon (httpd) was built by Tim Berners-Lee in the year 1989 . A new revolution in the world of communication and development was initiated by this invention.
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Tim Berners-Lee has received several international awards like Japan Prize, Millennium Technology Prize, Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, Germany's Die Quadriga Prize, etc. he became a fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.
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