Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Inventor of the World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee stands in front of the first web server

Tim Berners-Lee stands in front of the first web server at the Geneva Palexpo during the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003. (photo from CERN Document server)

Tim Berners-Lee demonstrates the World Wide Web to delegates at the Hypertext 1991 conference in San Antonio, Texas. (photo from CERN Document server)

Former physicist, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web as an essential tool for high energy physics at CERN from 1989 to 1994. (photo from CERN Document server)

The "Internet, Web, What's next?" conference on 26 June 1998 at CERN: Tim Berners-Lee explains how the Web came to be and gave his views on the future. (photo from CERN Document server)

Tim Berners-Lee's Short Biography

1955 - born in London, England, United Kingdom
1973 to 1976 - University of Oxford (BA in physics)
1989 - while working at at CERN (the largest internet node in Europe), proposed a global hypertext project to join hypertext with the internet, to be known as the World Wide Web
1990 to 1991 - wrote the first World Wide Web server, "httpd", and the first client, "WorldWideWeb" a what-you-see-is-what-you-get hypertext browser/editor
1991 and 1993 - continued working on the design of the Web, His initial specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined and discussed as the Web technology spread
1994 - founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since that time he has served as the Director of the W3C
2001 - became a Fellow of the Royal Society
2013 - was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
2017 - awarded the ACM A.M. Turing Prize for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale

Difference between the Internet and the Web

(from Tim Berners-Lee's FAQ page)

The Internet ('Net) is a network of networks. Basically it is made from computers and cables.
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn figured out how this could be used to send around little "packets" of information. They defined the "Internet Protocol" (IP) and "Transmission Control Protocol" (TCP), by which packets are sent on from one computer to another until they reach their destination.
The DESIGN of Internet was done in 1973 and published in 1974. There ensued about 10 years of hard work, resulting in the roll out of Internet in 1983.
Paul Mockapetris had figured out the Domain Name System (DNS).
I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and -- ta-da! -- the World Wide Web. , —Tim Berners-Lee.
Web provides a way to retrieve and access documents on the Internet.
The Web is an abstract (imaginary) space of information. On the Net, you find computers -- on the Web, you find document, sounds, videos,.... information. On the Net, the connections are cables between computers; on the Web, connections are hypertext links. The Web exists because of programs which communicate between computers on the Net. The Web could not be without the Net. The Web made the net useful because people are really interested in information (not to mention knowledge and wisdom!) and don't really want to have know about computers and cables.

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