Wednesday June 8, 1955

Birth of Tim Berners-Lee

Born Timothy John Berners-Lee

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. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989, then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.

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