Tim Berners-Lee - The Man Who Created the World Wide Web.
                     Tim Berners-Lee 
- THE MAN WHO 
CREATED THE 
WORLD WIDE 
WEB
Introduction
In 1989,  Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide 
Web,  an Internet-based hypermedia in i t iat ive  for  
g lobal  informat ion shar ing whi le  at  CERN,  the  
European Part ic le  Physics Laboratory.  
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Specifications
He wrote the fi rst  web c l ient  and server in  1990.  
His  specifi cat ions of  URIs ,  HTTP and HTML were  
refi ned as  web technology spread.
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Director of the World Wide Web 
Consortium 
He is  Di rector  of  the World Wide Web Consort ium 
(W3C) ,  a Web standards organizat ion founded in  
1994 that  develops interoperable technologies to 
lead the Web to i ts  ful l  potentia l .  
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Web Science Trust 
He is  a founding Di rector  of  the  Web Sc ience Trust  
(WST) launched in  2009 to promote research and 
educat ion in  Web Sc ience,  the  mult idisc ip l inary 
study of  humani ty  connected by technology.
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Early life 
Berners-Lee was born on 8  June 1955 in  London,  
England,  the e ldest  of  the four  chi ldren of  Mary Lee 
Woods and Conway Berners-Lee;  h is  brother Mike is  
a professor  o f  ecology and c l imate change 
management.  
His  parents  were  computer sc ient ists  who worked 
on the fi rst  commercia l ly bui l t  computer,  the 
Ferrant i  Mark 1 .  
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Education
He at tended Sheen  Mount  Pr imary  Schoo l ,  and  then  
went  on  to  at tend  south -west  London 's  Emanue l  Schoo l  
f rom 1969 to  1973,  a t  the  t ime a  d i rect  g rant  g rammar  
schoo l ,  wh ich  became an  independent  schoo l  i n  1975.
He  s tud ied  at  The Queen 's  Co l lege ,  Oxford ,  f rom 1973 
to  1976,  where he  rece ived  a  fi rst - c lass  Bachelor  o f  
A r ts  degree  in  phys i cs .  Whi le  a t  un ivers i ty ,  Berners -
Lee made a  computer  out  o f  an  o ld  te lev is ion  set ,  
wh ich  he  bought  f rom a  repa i r  shop .
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Personal life
Berners-Lee marr ied Nancy Car lson,  an American 
computer programmer,  in  1990.  She was a lso 
working in Swi tzer land at the  World Health 
Organizat ion.  
They had two chi ldren and divorced in 2011.  In  
2014,  he marr ied Rosemary Le i th at  the  Chapel  
Royal ,  St .  James's  Palace in  London.
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Career
After  graduat ion,  Berners-Lee worked as an 
engineer at  the te lecommunicat ions  company 
Plessey in  Poole ,  Dorset .  In 1978,  he jo ined D.  G.  
Nash in Ferndown,  Dorset ,  where  he helped create 
typesett ing software for  pr inters .
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Awards and honours
Berners-Lee has received many awards and 
honours.  He was knighted by Queen El izabeth I I  in  
the 2004 New Year  Honours " for  serv ices to  the  
g lobal  deve lopment of  the Internet" ,  and was 
invested formal ly  on 16 July  2004.
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Awards and honours cont.
On 13 June 2007,  he was appointed to the Order o f  
Mer i t  (OM),  an order restr ic ted to 24 ( l iv ing)  
members .
Bestowing membership of  the  Order of  Mer i t  is  
wi thin the  personal  purv iew of  the Queen and does 
not  requi re  recommendation by ministers  or  the  
Pr ime Minister.
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Thank you
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