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Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 5th 1955 in London, England.
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Went to Emanual School London from 1969 to 1973
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1973 to 1976 graduated at the Queens College, Oxford university England where he recieved 1st class degree in physics.
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By 1976, Tim had the knowledge and experience with building computers and now it was time to start computer languages. He spent a few years developing them.
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1978, Tim worked at D.G. Nash Limited where he wrote typesetting software.
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At this stage of Tim's life, he had been employed as an independent contractor at CERN in Switzerland. He had to build software.
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Started in a new job called John Pooles image computer systems. This gave him experience in computer networking.
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he went back to work at CERN with a permanent persition.
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The peak of Tim's career was when he produced the first version of the world wide web, the first web browser, and the first web server. This was all succeeded with the help of Robert Cailliau.
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Tim married Nancy Carlson, an American computer programmer and former figure skater, in Connecticut in 1990.
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This day, the world wide web was launched on the internet making it available for the entire public world.
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First website was built at CERN and put online on the 6th August.
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In 1992 there were over 50 web servers in the world.
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By summer 1993 the site was getting 10 thousand hits a day.
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In 1994, Berners-Lee founded W3C (World Wide Web consortium) at the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
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1994, he became one of 6th members of the World Wide Web. They decided to improve the standards and allow anyone to be able to access freely.
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He became a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK, in December 2004. There he worked on the Semantic Web
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Tim launched a charity called the World Wide Web Foundation in Uganda in 2009. This foundation goes towards the improvement and development of the world wide web.
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In 2009, he worked in a project set up by Gordon Brown to help make UK data more publicly available.
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Tim divorced his wife Nancy Carlson and remarried to Rosemary Leith whom he had partnered with on internet projects.
