Tim berners-lee
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee (pronunciation: /tɪm bɜːrnərz liː/), also known as Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Etymology
The name "Tim Berners-Lee" is of English origin. "Tim" is a short form of "Timothy", a name of Greek origin meaning "honoring God". "Berners-Lee" is a hyphenated surname, a common practice in British naming traditions.
Biography
Tim Berners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955 in London, England. He graduated from The Queen's College, Oxford with a first-class degree in physics. In 1989, while working at CERN, he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. This project later became known as the World Wide Web.
Contributions
Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, in 1990 while employed at CERN. He also made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet in mid-November of the same year.
Related Terms
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
- Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Tim berners-lee
- Wikipedia's article - Tim berners-lee
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