PERSON
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web. While at CERN from 1989 to 1991 he implemented its foundational technologies—HTTP, HTML, URL, the first server and the first browser. Founded the W3C in 1994 to lead web standardisation. ACM Turing Award, 2016. In recent years he has been developing Solid, a decentralised web platform aimed at returning data sovereignty to users.
Profile
- Born
- 1955
- Status
- Living
- Span
- 71 years
- Appearances
- 01
- Name
- ENTim Berners-LeeJAティム・バーナーズ＝リー
Appearances
- March 1989The World Wide Web Proposed — CERNTim Berners-Lee, a computer engineer at CERN, sent his manager Mike Sendall a hypertext document-management proposal—'Information Management: A Proposal'—as a solution to information sharing inside the laboratory. Sendall wrote in the margin: 'Vague, but exciting...'. The implementation went public in 1991, and the world's first web server, browser, HTTP, and HTML descend from this document.