About Sir. Tim Berners-Lee

"A man who is committed to academic research and treats wealth and riches like a floating cloud."

Sir. Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist who was born in British. He is the inventor of the World Wide Web. On 25 December 1990, he and Robert Cario worked together at CERN to achieve the first communication between an HTTP proxy and a server over the Internet. 1 The World Wide Web Consortium is an organization founded by Berners-Lee to follow the development of the World Wide Web, where he was employed as the chairman and the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation.

In 1984, Tim came to Geneva, Switzerland, where the young Tim took on an extremely challenging task: in order to enable nuclear physicists from all over Europe to communicate and transmit information in a timely manner via computer networks for collaborative research, he was commissioned to develop software that would make the latest information, data and images from physics laboratories and institutes located in different countries available to all. Software development was not Tim's field of expertise, but the temptation was strong enough for him to take on the task.[2] In December 1989, Tim officially named his invention World Wide Web, or WWW as we are familiar with it, and in May 1991, WWW made its debut on the Internet and immediately caused a sensation. [3] The Internet was born in the 1960s, but why did it not spread quickly? In fact, a very important reason is that connecting to the Internet requires a series of complex operations, and the permissions of the network are also very clear, and the expression of online content is extremely monotonous and boring.

According to Professor Negroponte, author of “Being digital” and a leading American information expert, 1989 was a watershed year in the history of the Internet. Indeed, WWW technology gave the Internet a powerful life, and the way of Web browsing gave the Internet a beautiful youth. [4]

On 6 August 1991, the first website Berners built went online (and the first in the world), which is ‘http: //info. cern. ch/’, explaining what the World Wide Web is, how a web browser is used and how a web server was set up, etc. [5] Berners later listed other websites on this site, making it the world's first World Wide Web directory. In 1994, Berners founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the MIT, which consisted of different companies originally intending to establish World Wide Web standards and improve the quality of the World Wide Web. The battle between Netscape and Microsoft over the browser, known as the first commercial battle of the World Wide Web, was already crippling the rapidly expanding web. In 1994, the non-profit World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded, a group of 155 leading Internet companies, including Microsoft, to standardize WWW technology and to further the development of Web technology. Tim insisted that the basic task of the W3C is to maintain the reciprocity of the Internet and to keep it in a minimum order. [6]

Berners believes that the WWW opened a new era of the information age, but it was just a matter of chance and karma. He does not regret that he did not set up his own web software company either; it was a trade-off for him, not a gain or loss. [7] The great Internet was built up by the selfless work of countless pioneers like Berners. We should also work in our own fields of expertise and make contributions to lead the way for the benefit of others.