Tim Berners-Lee
Computer scientist, inventor of the Web
Tim Berners-Lee is the computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web. He also founded the body that oversees its standards, the World Wide Web Consortium.
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British Born 1955 in London, United Kingdom
About Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN. He put forward an information management system in March 1989 and built the first Web browser and server. He is also credited with HTML, the URL system and HTTP. He set up the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization that guides how the Web keeps developing, and co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation with Rosemary Leith. He also founded the Open Data Institute and serves as its president. He was knighted in 2004 and received the 2016 Turing Award. Berners-Lee holds an emeritus professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a research post at the University of Oxford. He has long argued for net neutrality and an open, ethical Web, and works on Solid and the company Inrupt. At the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, he tweeted "This is for everyone", the same words as the title of his book This Is for Everyone.