Timothy John Berners-Lee Facts
Timothy John Berners-Lee Facts
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| Interesting Timothy John Berners-Lee Facts: |
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| Berners-Lee was born in London, England. |
| His parents worked on the first commercially built computer. |
| From 1969 to 1973 he attended Emanuel School. |
| From 1973 to 1976 he attended Queen's College and received a first-class degree in physics. |
| After graduation he joined Plessey in Poole as an engineer. |
| He moved to D.G.Nash where he helped create typesetting software. |
| From June to December of 1980 while at CERN, he worked on a project to facilitate shring and updating information using hypertext. |
| His initial prototype was named ENQUIRE. |
| From 1980 to 1983 he worked at Poole's Image Computer Systems, LTD where he worked on the project on real-time remote procedure call and computer networking. |
| 1989 CERN was already an internet node so Noakes saw an opportunity to link his hypertext idea to the current system. |
| He wrote the proposal in March 1989 and it was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall. |
| The first website was put online on August 6, 1991. |
| In 1994 he founded the W3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| It was a group of companies who joined together to create standards and make recommendations to improve the Web. |
| In 2004 he became a chair in Computer Science at the University of Southampton. |
| In June 2009 he helped create data.gov.uk which was designed to make official information more accessible to the public. |
| In November 2009 he created the World Wide Web Foundation whose purpose was " to Advance the Web to empower humanity by launching transformative programs that build local capacity to leverage the Web as a medium for positive change" |
| He is a supporter of Net Neutrality and net privacy. |
| In October 2013 the Alliance for Affordable Internet was created and includes Google, Facebook, Intel and Microsoft. |
| The purpose of the Alliance is to make internet access more available to the third world. |
| Berners-Lee is leading the alliance and hopes to decrease internet access prices and so increase access for the poor. |
| In 2004 he was knighted for his work and in 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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