1955-
Inventor of the World Wide Web

Background.

Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web, revolutionizing the Internet and making the vast sums of information it contained easily accessible to anyone with a computer. Born 8 June 1955, in London, Berners- Lee was encouraged to think creatively about science from an early age. He studied physics at Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in 1976, and once built a working computer out of spare parts and a TV set. After attending Oxford, he spent two years working for Plessey Telecommunications Ltd., a major British Telecom equipment manufacturer, and then at D. G. Nash Ltd. From June to December 1980 he consulted as a software engineer at CERN (Conseil European pour la Recherche Nucleaire) in Geneva. Inventing the Web. While at CERN Berners-Lee wrote a program designed for storing information using random associations and called it "Enquire," short for Enquire Within Upon Everything...