Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist (born 1955)

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  • Fame84.7
  • Momentum10.0
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Born 1955 · age 71United Kingdom

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  • Rank in United Kingdom
    #34
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  • Age
    71
    Born 1955
  • Known for
    The Internet's Own Boy…
    2014
Summary
Updated 2026-08-14

He wrote the code that turned the internet into the World Wide Web — the browser, the server, the protocols that let strangers' machines talk. Everything clickable traces back to a 1989 proposal at CERN.

Biography

About

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 Turi…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee
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Almost everything which you needed to know in your daily life was written down somewhere.
[[Tim Berners-Lee], "The creator of the World Wide Web, TIM BERNERS-LEE" "Fresh Air", NPR, (February 7, 1996); as quoted by Julian Ring “30
Tim Berners-Lee
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Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994)
Tim Berners-Lee
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Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994)
Tim Berners-Lee
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An [hypertext] encyclopaedia will be an overall attempt by the knowledgeable, the learned societies or anyone else, to represent the state-of-the-art in their field.
"Electronic publishing and visions of hypertext", Physics World, June 1992.
Tim Berners-Lee
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This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.
"WorldWideWeb wide-area hypertext app available" (19 August 1991), the announcement of the first WWW hypertext browser on the Usenet
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84.7
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Score components
Momentum10.0
Historical26.8
Now attention26.7
Source confidence75.0
Completeness85.0
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