Sir Tim Berners-Lee — Inventor of the World Wide Web
Born 8 June 1955 Nationality British Field Computer Science Institutions CERN • MIT • W3C About Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist, widely recognized as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Born in London in 1955, he was raised by parents who worked on the first commercial computers. This early exposure inspired his passion for computing. While working at CERN in 1989, he proposed a global hypertext system that became the World Wide Web. He created HTML, HTTP, URL systems, the first browser, and the first web server. In 1991, the first website went live, marking the birth of the Web. Berners-Lee chose not to patent the Web, making it free and accessible to all — a decision that allowed it to grow into the most widely used information system in history. He later founded the World Wide Web Cons...