English computer scientist (born 1955)
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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.
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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Almost everything which you needed to know in your daily life was written down somewhere.
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.
Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
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.
This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.
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