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Tim Berners-Lee Born
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School
attended school at Sheen Mount Primary School and London's Independent Emanuel School -
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University
attended Queens College of the Oxford University -
D.G. Nash Ltd.
Berners-Lee worked at D.G. Nash Ltd. writing typesetting software for intelligent printers and a multitasking operating system. He was also working as an independent consultant for many companies including CERN around this time -
CERN
Tim received his fellowship from CERN and started working there. As the company was working on email and data sharing, he realized that a simpler and more efficient method of data sharing had to be devised -
Conceptualization of World Wide Web
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World's First Website
The world's first website was info.cern.ch built at CERN. The site provided information for WWW. -
Established WWW Consortium
The WWW Consortium was a rule book of sorts, or a way to document the guidelines of the World Wide Web. -
Professor of Computer Science at University of Southampton, UK
Worked on Semantic Web -
Co-Director of Web Science Trust
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Founded and Directed World Wide Web Foundation