Contribution
Inventing the World Wide Web; creating HTTP, HTML, URIs, and the first web browser and server.
Bio
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist and engineer best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He designed and implemented the first successful HTTP client-server communication, established foundational web standards, and founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to keep the web open and royalty-free.
Stories
1. Proposing the Web
On 12 March 1989, while at CERN, Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for an information management system that became the World Wide Web.
2. First Web Server
In late 1990 he ran the first web server on a NeXT computer at CERN and demonstrated the first browser–server communication by Christmas.
3. Founding the W3C
In 1994 he founded the World Wide Web Consortium to oversee the web's standards and ensure its development remained open.
4. Linked Data Innovation
He introduced the 5-star Open Data deployment scheme to promote the sharing and linking of data on the web.
