By: Todd Long
Submitted: 2010-04-21 14:56:14 | Word Count: 446
Tim Berners-Lee was born on the 8th of June 1955 in London. Tim Berners-Lee is one of the most remarkable inventors in the 20th century. He created the "World Wide Web". The world today is a different place because of his invention (The Great Idea Finder [GIF], 2007).
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
Education
"Berners-Lee's education included Emanuel School in Wandsworth, and later Queen's College, Oxford". He studies physics in Queen's College. He graduated in 1976 (GIF, 2007).
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Creating the Internet
He worker with "Plessey Telecommunications Ltd" between 1976 and 1978. His next job was at "D.G Nash Ltd"; he stayed there from 1978 until 1980 (GIF, 2007).
After that, Berners-Lee became "a consultant/software engineer for CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland". When he was there, he created a program called "Enquire"; he created this program to be able to save connections made by researchers at CERN. Enquire was the early form of the World Wide Web. He worked in CERN until late 1980. His next station was "John Poole's Image Computer Systems Ltd"; he worked as a technical designer until 1984. Later that year, Berners-Lee returned to CERN (GIF, 2007). The system at CERN was "bureaucratic", so he started to think about creating a system that enables computers world-wide to acquire information easily (Soylent Communications [SC], 2008b).
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee sent his suggestion for that system to CERN but it was rejected. He continued accomplishing his vision and created the "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)" language in 1990; this language gives the ability to transmit data (or "hypertext documents") using the internet. He had an idea of creating an address for each document on the internet; this address is called "Universal Resource Identifier (URI). It was later called " URL—Uniform Resource Locator". By late 1990, Berners-Lee created the first browser for internet documents; he called it "WorldWideWeb". He created the "Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)"; this language is used for formatting internet documents. He also created the first "web server"; a web server makes internet documents in a particular computer accessible by other computers world-wide. Tim Berners-Lee tried to convince CERN to adopt this new invention but they rejected again ("Pioneers," n.d.).
By 1991, Tim Berners-Lee started to promote his invention using the internet. Users' respond was shocking; many users created new web servers. Berners-Lee started to link to their sites using his website upon their requests ("Pioneers," n.d.).
The number of internet users increased to include researchers and "Government agencies"; internet started to get more attention and became very popular. People needed a new "point-and-click browsers"(Pioneers, n.d.)
