Timothy John Berners-Lee

Timothy John Berners-Lee is a famous British computer scientist, best known for his invention of the world wide web in 1989. After graduating from Oxford in 1976, he worked in many computer industries. While at CERN, he started working on a new project by himself, called Enquire, which could store data in files and also contain links from both within the file and outside it; which later came to know as hypertext. In 1989, he proposed a new global hypertext document system that could use the internet much better. His primary focus was to enable the researchers to share their techniques, results, and processes without having to interchange the content through emails. Instead, the researchers can put the information online where their colleagues can reclaim it anytime and anywhere. There are three main components of the World Wide Web(www), which makes it easier to access from anywhere in the world. URL (Uniform Resource Locator), which locates the address of the page/document and helps to retrieve it from the web; HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), which gives users a way to interact with web resources and HTML (hypertext markup language), which helps to structure a web page and it’s content containing hypertext links. Berners-Lee also builds the world’s first web server and web browser. Between October 1990 and 1991, Berners-Lee developed software for the first web server (central repositories for sharing files) and the first web client, or "browser" (programs for accessing and displaying files downloaded from servers.)

He built a web for everyone, where anyone from anywhere with access to the internet can use the web to study, create, and produce without asking for permission. The World Wide Web (WWW) unwrapped the internet to everyone, not only to scientists and researchers but also to normal people. It soon becomes an equal playing field for everyone, connecting the world, and making it much easier for people to interact, access, share, produce, and communicate information. It allowed people to share their works, thoughts, and ideas through online platforms, social networking sites, blogs, and many more. It is also worth mentioning that Tim Berners-Lee is often cited as creating the Internet. Berners-Lee has received many awards and honors including the Turing award for inventing the World Wide Web(WWW), the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to reach the next level.