- Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
Born: | 08 June 1955 Comment | How old is Tim Berners-Lee in 2024? / Age: | 68 years
| Zodiac sign: | Gemini |
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Tim Berners-Lee facts
- He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year
- Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web
- He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the founders chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
- He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
- In 2011, he was named as a member the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation
- In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work
- In April 2009, he was elected a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century, Berners-Lee has received a number of other accolades for his invention
- He was honoured as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web" during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in which he appeared in person, working with a vintage NeXT Computer at the London Olympic Stadium
- He tweeted "This is for everyone", which instantly was spelled out in LCD lights attached to the chairs of the 80,000 people in the audience
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