Tim Berners-Lee

(Born June 8th, 1955) Tim Berners-Lee is best known for inventing the World-Wide Web in 1989. After graduating from Oxford University, Berners-Lee began working at CERN as a software engineer. It was at CERN that Berners-Lee would invent the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee saw a solution to the large problem of information sharing and made a personal effort to resolve this issue. By 1990, he had written three of the fundamental building blocks of the internet; HTML, URI and HTTP. One of his most important beliefs about the Web is that it is a public right and should be used to help humanity as a whole. He ensured that CERN would make the underlying code for the web available to everyone and cost nothing. Berners-Lee is currently a director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organization which he founded in 1994 that produces Web standards and aims to optimize the Web. W3C is currently working to realize Berners-Lee's goals of the Semantic Web.