Margie Semilof

In 1990 Tim Berners—Lee wrote the computer program for what he christened the "World Wide Web" while working in Geneva, Switzerland, at the European Particle Physics Laboratory-known by the acronym CERN. Two things consistently impress those who have worked with him and those who only have heard of him: that his mind was able to envision and create something as sweeping and world altering as the World Wide Web and that he has never sought to profit from his creation. As Computer Reseller News reporter Margie Semilof notes in this overview of Berners—Lee and his invention, many want to idolize him. But Berners—Lee avoids the public eye and continues to guide the Web and its developments through the World Wide Web Consortium, which he...