Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee was born on the 8th
June 1955 in London, England. He is an English computer scientist and is best
known for his invention of the World Wide Web. He also implemented the first successful
communication a Hypertext Transfer Protocal (HTTP) client and server through
the Internet around November in 1989.
After he had graduated, Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at
the telecommunications company Plessey in Poole. He then joined D. G. Nash in
Ferndown, Dorset in 1978 where he helped create type setting software for
printers.
He also worked as an independent contractor at a company
called CERN in 1980 (from June to December). After leaving CERN, he accepted a
job at John Poole’s Image Computer Systems, Ltd, In Bournemouth, England. His
was given the role to run the company’s technical side for three years. He
worked on a project that was a “real time remote procedure call” which gave him
valuable experience in computer networking.
In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for
his work in pioneering. He was also elected a foreign associate of the United
State National Academy of Sciences in April 2009.
Reference;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
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