A Basic Intro: Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is often considered to be the inventor of the World Wide Web. He was born in London, England in 1955, to parents who were both mathematicians. He graduated at Oxfoed University and holds the 3Com Founders chair at MIT, in addition to directing the W3 Consortium.
Whilst working on a temporary contract as a software consultant at CERN in Geneva, during 1980, he wrote a program called Enquire, to help him remember connections between various people and projects at the lab. The fundamentals were born. He left CERN shortly after, but returned to a more permanent position there in 1984. Using newly emerged technology, he picked up the concepts of his earlier work and continued to develop them.
By 1989 he had developed his work enough to submit a formal proposal to CERN, and continued to work on it despite little response. In 1990 he write HTTP, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol many of us are familiar with. He also produced a method to designate unique addresses to remote documents, which he called a URI: a Universal Resource Identifier. The major blocks of the WWW are now becoming clear. However, he topped this off with the development of a client browser to retrieve and view http documents. He even created a web server (info.cern.ch).
The Interview: Due to a copyright problem we cannot currently bring you the original interview which was held on this site. We hope to recover this at some stage in the future.
Whilst working on a temporary contract as a software consultant at CERN in Geneva, during 1980, he wrote a program called Enquire, to help him remember connections between various people and projects at the lab. The fundamentals were born. He left CERN shortly after, but returned to a more permanent position there in 1984. Using newly emerged technology, he picked up the concepts of his earlier work and continued to develop them.
By 1989 he had developed his work enough to submit a formal proposal to CERN, and continued to work on it despite little response. In 1990 he write HTTP, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol many of us are familiar with. He also produced a method to designate unique addresses to remote documents, which he called a URI: a Universal Resource Identifier. The major blocks of the WWW are now becoming clear. However, he topped this off with the development of a client browser to retrieve and view http documents. He even created a web server (info.cern.ch).
The Interview: Due to a copyright problem we cannot currently bring you the original interview which was held on this site. We hope to recover this at some stage in the future.