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Timothy John Berners-Lee (TBL to his admirers) (born June 8, 1955) is the
inventor of the World Wide Web and head of the World Wide Web Consortium,
which oversees its continued development.

He was born in London, England, and is an alumnus of Oxford University.

Proposal and Prototype

In 1989, Berners-Lee proposed a project to his employer CERN, based on the
concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among
researchers. With help from Robert Cailliau he built a prototype system
named Enquire, which later, called WorldWideWeb (developed on NeXTSTEP),
became the foundation of the World Wide Web.

The First Website

The first web site Tim built (and therefore the first web site) was at
http://info.cern.ch/ and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided
an explanation about what the internet was, how to get your own browser, how
to set up your own web server and so on. It was also the world's first web
directory, since Tim maintained a list of other web sites apart from his own.

No Royalties

While the component ideas of the World Wide Web are simple enough to be
understood by a high school student, Berners-Lee's insight was to combine
them in a way which is still exploring its full potential. Perhaps his
greatest single contribution, though, was to make his idea available freely,
with no patent and no royalties due.

Weaving the Web

In his book Weaving the Web, several recurring themes are apparent:

   * It is just as important to be able to edit the web as browse it (Wiki
     is therefore a significant step in the right direction)
   * Computers can be used for background tasks that enable humans to work
     better in groups (again, Wiki is a good example)
   * Every aspect of the internet should function as a web, rather than a
     tree structure. Notable current exceptions are the domain name system
     and the domain naming rules managed by ICANN.
   * Computer scientists have a moral responsibility as well as a technical
     responsibility.

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