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# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:34:01.352Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Timothy John Berners-Lee was born 8 June 1955 in England. On 12 March 1989, working as a computer scientist, he proposed an information management system; by mid-November he'd made the first successful HTTP connection between client and server over the internet. He built the first web browser and web server, devised HTML and the URL system, then spent the next decades stewarding what he'd started — founding the World Wide Web Consortium, co-founding the World Wide Web Foundation, and holding research posts at MIT and Oxford. Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in 2004. In 2016 he received the Turing Award for inventing the Web and the algorithms that let it scale, and Time named him among the hundred most important people of the twentieth century.