Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is computer scientist who’s known to be the inventor of the World Wide Web. He began his passion for electronics in 1976, when he attended Queens College at Oxford University, England. While attending school in his free time he actually built his first computer with a soldering iron as well as TTL gates and a M6800 processor, and an old television. In today’s terms we would say he’s the man who invented the internet or web if you will. He founded the web foundation to show the sole purpose of the web is to serve humanity. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee fights for the web to be open, private, and for freedom of web use. He proposed a global hyperlink project in 1989, this project is known today as the “World Wide Web.” With lots of work and dedication and standing behind his project, because of his dedication his idea it was picked up in 1990. The “WorldWideWeb” was then first made available to CERN in December 1991, CERN is a European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, of which Sir. Berners-Lee was employed with at that time. …show more content…
MIT, CSAIL, DIG, and Electronics and Computer Science Department at University of South Hampton United Kingdom. A very interesting fact is that he was also very involved in the education of technology and computers. Along with inventing the “WorldWideWeb” he also teaches students how to use them in order to help further their knowledge and careers. Another Foundation that Tim helped form to further webs potential to the humanity. The foundation is called the World Wide Web foundation. Along with that he’s part of W3C which he is director of, they make tools and software to help the web reach its full