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TIM BERNERS-LEE

Inventor of the World Wide Web####

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History:
Tim Berners-Lee conceived and developed the web with the help of Robert Cailliau#### and other people who were part of the nuclear physics laboratory of the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucleaire better known as CERN.

The development of the web was the key technology that made the internet popular around the world.
Tim Berners-Lee's mother and father were both mathematicians who were part of the team that programmed Manchester University's Mark I, the first commercial computer program, sold by the firm Ferranti Ltd. One day while attending Berners-Lee High School Lee found his father writing a speech about computers for Basil de Ferranti. Father and son talked about how the human brain has a unique advantage over computers in that it can connect concepts that are not yet associated. The young Berners-Lee was greatly impressed by the potential of computers to be able to connect two previously unrelated pieces of information.

Berners-Lee graduated from Queen's College, Oxford University in 1976 with a thesis in physics. He then worked for two years as a software engineer at Plessey Telecommunications on distributed systems, message repeaters, and barcodes. It was here that he met D.G. Nash####, where he developed a multi-tasking operating system, and intelligent printer control software.

In 1980, Berners-Lee first started working as a consultant at CERN. The organization consists of many small buildings located in a very beautiful area in the Jura mountains on the border between France and Switzerland. It was because CERN was so large and complex, with thousands of researchers and hundreds of systems, that Berners-Lee developed his first hypertext system to keep track of who was working on what project, what software was associated with what program, and what software was running on which computer. Like the development of trading packages, hyperlinks were an idea that was pioneered and theorized, both by Berners-Lee and independently five years later by Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart####.

Berners-Lee named his first hypertext system Inquire after reading an old book he found as a child in his parents' house called Enquire Within upon Everything which contained a wide range of tips, tricks and solutions. . The book enthralled young Tim with the suggestion that it magically contained the answer to every problem in the world. With the construction of the Enquire system in 1980, and then the WEB ten years later, Berners-Lee has almost successfully devoted his life to making his childhood book real.

From 1981 to 1984, Berners-Lee left CERN and worked at Image Computer Systems as Chief Technical Design, with responsibility for real-time, graphics, and communications software for an innovative program that enabled older dot-matrix printers , to print a wide range of advanced graphic designs. He later returned to CERN full-time in 1984, and almost immediately began seeking official funding for the hypertext project. In March of 1989, he completed a draft proposal for a system for communicating information among researchers in the departments of High Energy and Physics, intending to help those who had problems sharing information across a wide variety of different networks, computers, and countries. The project had two main targets:

1 Open drawing. As Robert Kahn#### designed for TCP/IP, the hypertext system needed to have an open architecture, and be able to run on any computer used at CERN including Unix####, VMS, Macintosh## ##, NextStep, and Windows####.

2 Network distribution. The system was supposed to be distributed over a communication network. However, Berners-Lee thought that there might be an intermediate period where much of the research material would be transported on individual CD-ROMs, which was never necessary.

He has won numerous awards in his career, Web development and promoting world peace.

Sources:

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

https://storiadiinternet.wordpress.com/la-nascita-di-internet/tim-berners-lee/