Multi-awarded 63 yrs old English computer scientist and creator of World Wide Web.

First holder of 3com Founders chair at MIT (1999).

Founder of W3C (1994), WWWF (2008) and ODI (2012).

Founder of Inrupt (2017), company that is developing Solid.

Created WWW in 1989 while working at CERN.

Motivated by the difficulty of working with different information on different computers.

Built using a combination of Hypertext, TCP protocol and DNS

Berners-Lee defined the specification of URIs, HTTP Protocol and HTML

First web server (Httpd) running on a Next Cube

First browser (WorldWideWeb) was WYSIWYG

Lack of control on personal data.

Fake news.

Political Influence.

"In recent years, we’ve seen conspiracy theories trend on social media platforms, fake Twitter and Facebook accounts stoke social tensions, external actors interfere in elections, and criminals steal troves of personal data." - Sir Tim Berners-Lee WWWF Founder Message on WWW's 29th birthday https://webfoundation.org/2018/03/web-birthday-29/

Has taken 15 years of development.

Based on the original idea for the web to be a collaborative space for all mankind.

Provides a platform for the next generation of truly empowering and innovative applications.

"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past." -timbl

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