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 * Article:** [|Tim Berners-Lee]

Unlike so many of the inventions that have moved the world, this one truly was the work of one man. Thomas Edison got credit for the light bulb, but he had dozens of people in his lab working on it. And if there ever was a thing that was made by committee, the Internet – with its protocols and packet switching – is it (Littlejohn).
 * Tim Berners-Lee** over view: invented the World Wide Web during 1990-1991, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva. In 1994, he later established the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science [MIT/LCS]. The purpose of W3C is to oversee the Web’s development and recommended universal standards (Littlejohn).

Tim had a dream; his dream was to get the world thinking by enhancing information. He from this day is one of the most powerful persons by having a significant role in the advancement of society and has helped build the new future.

How it All Came About
In 1980 Berners-Lee was doing a six-month program period as a software engineer at [|CERN], the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva. That’s were he tried to come up with a way to organize his notes. He was interested in programs that could help improve memory. With that goal in mind, Tim had developed software that could as Berners-Lee explains it: “keeps track of all the random associations one comes across in real life and brains are supposed to be so good at remembering but sometimes mine couldn’t.”

Tim had called his new invention [|Enquire], which came from a term meaning Enquire Within Upon Everything. The name came from a Victorian encyclopedia from his childhood.

Tim than decided what if stuff wanted to be added but was on someone else’s computer how would one be able to get specific information from another person without having to copy and then paste their information? Tim wanted to create an open document and an open computer for everyone and allow them to link their information with each other.

Tim Berners Lee had developed an easy to learn coding system called HTML (Hypertext Mark- Up Language). Tim soon then designed an addressing scheme that gave each Web Page a unique location. By giving each web page a URL (universal resource locator). This linked together documents form one computer to another. This process was coined HTTP (hypertext Transfer Protocol).

It was in 1989, when Tim had finally finished a system for researchers in the CERN High Energy Physics department, which would help people who were in need of information by having access to other scientists notes by linking together networks, computers and countries. This project had 2 goals

1) To be an open design meaning anyone on any computer will or can have access to the Web. 2) The web would be a new way of communication called the – Network Distribution (Littlejohn).

By April 30 1993, Tim had gotten CERN to provide a certificate that made the web technology and program code to be placed in the public domain, this meant that just about anyone, anywhere could use this new technology and at the same time improve it (Littlejohn).

His Creations
Tim Berners created HTML - (Hypertext Markup Language) this was the language to create WebPages He also designed the URL - a place of location for WebPages. Tim had also created HTTP - (Hypertext transfer Protocol) which allowed pages to be spanned on the Internet(Littlejohn).


 * For basic HTML and how to get started please refer [|here]

W3C
Tim’s main concept for the Web has famously come to be known as the W3C - World Wide Web Consortium. This idea was so that the Web could be used to its fullest potential. This in turn has altered the way communication, commerce, accessibility and compatibly have functioned.

1) To be an open design meaning anyone on any computer will or can have access to the Web. 2) The web would be a new way of communication called the – Network Distribution (Littlejohn).
 * The two Main concepts of the W3C**

Publications
Berners-Lee, T.J., et al, "World-Wide Web: Information Universe", //Electronic Publishing: Research, Applications and Policy//, April 1992. Berners-Lee T.J., et al, "The World Wide Web", //Communications of the ACM//, August 1994. Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti, //[|Weaving the Web]//, Harper San Francisco, 1999 (Tim Berners-Lee).

Education
[|The Queen's College], Oxford University, England, BA Hons (I) Physics, 1973-1976. [|Emanuel School], London 1969-73 Born London, England, 8 June 1955 (Tim Berners-Lee).