Tim Berners-Lee

By maksach

  • 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

  • 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

  • Founded and Directed World Wide Web Foundation