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Tim Berners-Lee (also known as Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee) is a British computer scientist best known for inventing the World Wide Web. He was born on June 8, 1955, in London, England.

Early Life and Education[edit]

Berners-Lee was born to parents who were both mathematicians and computer scientists. They worked on the first commercially-built computer, the Ferranti Mark I. He attended Sheen Mount Primary School before moving on to London's independent Emanuel School from 1969 to 1973. He studied physics at Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, earning a first-class degree.

Career[edit]

After graduating from Oxford, Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at the telecommunications company Plessey in Poole. In 1980, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, he first described the concept of a global system, based on the concept of 'hypertext', that would allow researchers anywhere to share information. He also built a prototype system named ENQUIRE.

In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for what would eventually become the World Wide Web. The first website, http://info.cern.ch, was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer. The website, which described the basic features of the web, was made publicly available on August 6, 1991.

Recognition and Awards[edit]

Berners-Lee has received numerous recognitions for his contributions to the internet and information technology. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2004 New Year Honours "for services to the global development of the Internet", and was awarded the Order of Merit in 2007. In 2016, he received the ACM Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale".

Personal Life[edit]

Berners-Lee is married to Rosemary Leith, a Canadian internet and banking entrepreneur. They live in the United States and are co-founders of the Web Foundation, which aims to "establish the open web as a global public good and a basic right".

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 Internet Hall of Fame

2012	* Paul Baran Vint Cerf Danny Cohen Steve Crocker Donald Davies Elizabeth J. Feinler Charles Herzfeld Robert Kahn Peter T. Kirstein Leonard Kleinrock John Klensin Jon Postel Louis Pouzin Lawrence Roberts
2013	* David Clark David Farber Howard Frank Kanchana Kanchanasut J. C. R. Licklider Bob Metcalfe Jun Murai Kees Neggers Nii Quaynor Glenn Ricart Robert Taylor Stephen Wolff Werner Zorn
2014	* Douglas Engelbart Susan Estrada Frank Heart Dennis Jennings Rolf Nordhagen Radia Perlman

2012	* Randy Bush Kilnam Chon Al Gore Nancy Hafkin Geoff Huston Brewster Kahle Daniel Karrenberg Toru Takahashi Tan Tin Wee
2013	* Karen Banks Gihan Dias Anriette Esterhuysen Steve Goldstein Teus Hagen Ida Holz Qiheng Hu Haruhisa Ishida Barry Leiner George Sadowsky
2014	* Dai Davies Demi Getschko Masaki Hirabaru Erik Huizer Steve Huter Abhaya Induruwa Dorcas Muthoni Mahabir Pun Srinivasan Ramani Michael Roberts Ben Segal Douglas Van Houweling
2017	* Nabil Bukhalid Ira Fuchs Shigeki Goto Mike Jensen Ermanno Pietrosemoli Tadao Takahashi Florencio Utreras Jianping Wu

2012	* Mitchell Baker Tim Berners-Lee Robert Cailliau Van Jacobson Lawrence Landweber Paul Mockapetris Craig Newmark Ray Tomlinson Linus Torvalds Phil Zimmermann
2013	* Marc Andreessen John Perry Barlow Francois Fluckiger Stephen Kent Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder Henning Schulzrinne Richard Stallman Aaron Swartz Jimmy Wales
2014	* Eric Allman Eric Bina Karlheinz Brandenburg John Cioffi Hualin Qian Paul Vixie
2017	* Jaap Akkerhuis Yvonne Marie Andres Alan Emtage Ed Krol Tracy LaQuey Parker Craig Partridge

2019	* Adiel Akplogan Kimberly Claffy Douglas Comer Elise Gerich Larry Irving Dan Lynch Jean Armour Polly José Soriano Michael Stanton Klaas Wierenga Suguru Yamaguchi
2021	* Carlos Afonso Rob Blokzijl Hans-Werner Braun Frode Greisen Jan Gruntorad Saul Hahn Kim Hubbard Rafael Ibarra Xing Li Yngvar Lundh Dan Kaminsky DaeYoung Kim Kenneth Klingenstein Alejandro Pisanty Yakov Rekhter Philip Smith Pal Spilling Liane Tarouco Virginia Travers George Varghese Lixia Zhang
2023	* Abhay Bhushan Laura Breeden Ivan Moura Campos Steve Cisler Peter Eckersley Hartmut Richard Glaser Simon S. Lam William Schrader Guy de Téramond

ACM Turing Award Laureates

1960s	* Alan J. Perlis (1966) * Maurice Wilkes (1967) * Richard Hamming (1968) * Marvin Minsky (1969)
1970s	* James H. Wilkinson (1970) * John McCarthy (1971) * Edsger W. Dijkstra (1972) * Charles W. Bachman (1973) * Donald Knuth (1974) * Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon (1975) * Michael O. Rabin and Dana S. Scott (1976) * John Backus (1977) * Robert W. Floyd (1978) * Kenneth E. Iverson (1979)
1980s	* C. Antony R. Hoare (1980) * Edgar F. Codd (1981) * Stephen A. Cook (1982) * Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (1983) * Niklaus Wirth (1984) * Richard M. Karp (1985) * John Hopcroft and Robert Tarjan (1986) * John Cocke (1987) * Ivan Sutherland (1988) * William Kahan (1989)
1990s	* Fernando J. Corbató (1990) * Robin Milner (1991) * Butler W. Lampson (1992) * Juris Hartmanis and Richard E. Stearns (1993) * Edward Feigenbaum and Raj Reddy (1994) * Manuel Blum (1995) * Amir Pnueli (1996) * Douglas Engelbart (1997) * Jim Gray (1998) * Frederick P. Brooks (1999)
2000s	* Andrew Yao (2000) * Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard (2001) * Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman (2002) * Alan Kay (2003) * Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn (2004) * Peter Naur (2005) * Frances E. Allen (2006) * Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis (2007) * Barbara Liskov (2008) * Charles P. Thacker (2009)

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Databases	MySQL • PostgreSQL • MongoDB • SQLite
Web Services	REST • SOAP • GraphQL
Protocols	HTTP • HTTPS • WebSocket • FTP
Security	OAuth • OpenID Connect • JWT • CORS
Tools	Git • Docker • Webpack • NPM
Standards	W3C • WHATWG
More	Web development • Web design • Web application • Responsive web design • Single-page application
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