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TIm-Berners Lee

By CMOL
  • His Birth

    His Birth
    Tim Berners-Lee was born in England London on June 8, 1955
  • How he started the World Wide Web (WWW)

    How he started the World Wide Web (WWW)
    He was working for CERN one of the largest internet nodes of europe, he saw his chance to join hypertext with the internet, and thus created the world wide web (WWW)
  • The very first website

    The very first website
    By using his idea CERNs' created the first ever website known as Info.cern.ch, it was monitored in france using CERN technology
  • Promotion

    Promotion
    TIme accepted a spot as chair in Computer Science at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, England
  • what wasnt necassary

    Tim addmitted that the two // in the code wernt necassry for it to work, but he went along with it
  • Current work

    In June 2009 then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Berners-Lee would work with the UK Government to help make data more open and accessible on the Web, building on the work of the Power of Information Task Force