{"id":725,"date":"2019-06-26T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2019-07-15T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T10:13:25","slug":"tim-berners-lee-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/tim-berners-lee-an-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Berners-Lee – An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong>
\nTim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web (WWW). Berners-Lee enabled a method to be able to view hypertext documents (web-pages) through the internet. He also serves as a director for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which manages standards for the Internet and World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, England on 8th June 1955. Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s full name is Timothy John Berners-Lee. After completing his A Levels at Emanuel School, he went to Queen\u2019s College of Oxford University where he received his first-class degree in physics.<\/p>\n

Early Life<\/strong>
\nAfter graduation, he gained employment in a printing firm based in Plessey, Poole. He was employed as an independent contractor in 1980 at CERN in Switzerland. An essential role of his job included sharing information with researchers in different geographical areas. To help this process, he suggested a plan based on the use of hypertext (a language for sharing text electronically). The first prototype system was known as ENQUIRE. The Internet had been developed since the 1960s as a way to transfer information and data between different computers placed very far away. However, Tim Berners-Lee attempted to make use of internet nodes and combine it with hypertext and the idea of domains. Tim Berners-Lee later stated that all the technology associated with the internet and the web had already been developed \u2013 \u2018hypertext\u2019, the internet; his participation was to put them all together in one complete package.<\/p>\n

Personal Life<\/strong>
\nHe has married twice \u2013 first to Jane Northcote and second to Nancy in 1990. Tim Berners- Lee has two children with Nancy. They got divorced in the year 2011. Then, Tim Berners-Lee got married to Rosemary Leith in 2014. He is a member of the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Church and appreciates the liberal, ecumenical approach of the church, which stresses the innate dignity of people and in working together to achieve harmony and understanding. Despite the expanse of his invention, Berners-Lee is not too rich. Unlike other counterparts, like Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, is now a millionaire. He drove a 13-year-old VW Beetle for many years which was recently replaced with a VW EOS. He seems gratified with the non-profit trail he took.<\/p>\n

Short Biography<\/strong>
\nIn 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners-Lee created the first version of the World Wide Web also the first web browser as well as the first web server. It was put online in the year 1991. \u201cInfo.cern.ch\u201d was introduced as very first website address of the world and web-server, running on a NeXT machine at CERN. The first web page address tested was: http:\/\/info.cern.ch\/hypertext\/WWW\/TheProject.html. Basically, the contribution of the World Wide Web was to make it easy for people to view hypertext web pages (HTML) anywhere in the world through the internet. The primary components of this new development were:<\/p>\n