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	Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first web browser. His software also functioned as an editor (called WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).		Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first web browser. His software also functioned as an editor (called WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).

	Berners-Lee published the first website, which described the project itself, on 20 December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network. The site provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, and how people could use a browser and set up a web server and a website.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Welcome to info.cern.ch, the website of the world's first-ever web server\|publisher=CERN\|url=http://info.cern.ch/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—Archive of world's first website\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|url=http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—First mentioned on USENET\|date=6 August 1991\|url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|access-date=25 May 2008\|archive-date=12 May 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512015304/http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/he-caught-us-all-in-the-web/article24836867.ece\|title=He caught us all in the Web!\|date=1 September 2018\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2 September 2018\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee first posted, on Usenet, a public invitation for collaboration with the WorldWideWeb project.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/25-years-ago-the-world-changed-forever \|title=25 Years ago the world changed forever \|first=Amy \|last=Van der Hiel \|date=4 August 2016 \|website=[[W3C]] \|accessdate=5 August 2021}}</ref>		Berners-Lee published the first website, which described the project itself, on 20 December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network. The site provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, and how people could use a browser and set up a web server and a website.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Welcome to info.cern.ch, the website of the world's first-ever web server\|publisher=CERN\|url=http://info.cern.ch/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—Archive of world's first website\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|url=http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—First mentioned on USENET\|date=6 August 1991\|url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|access-date=25 May 2008\|archive-date=12 May 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512015304/http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/he-caught-us-all-in-the-web/article24836867.ece\|title=He caught us all in the Web!\|date=1 September 2018\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2 September 2018\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee first posted, on Usenet, a public invitation for collaboration with the [[WorldWideWeb]] project.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/25-years-ago-the-world-changed-forever \|title=25 Years ago the world changed forever \|first=Amy \|last=Van der Hiel \|date=4 August 2016 \|website=[[W3C]] \|accessdate=5 August 2021}}</ref>

	In a list of 80 cultural moments that shaped the world, chosen by a panel of 25 eminent scientists, academics, writers and world leaders in 2016, the invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one, with the entry stating: "The fastest growing communications medium of all time, the Internet has changed the shape of modern life forever. We can connect with each other instantly, all over the world."<ref>{{cite web \|title= 80 moments that shaped the world \|url= https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|publisher= [[British Council]] \|access-date= 13 May 2016 \|url-status= dead \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160630220524/https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|archive-date= 30 June 2016 \|df= dmy-all }}</ref>		In a list of 80 cultural moments that shaped the world, chosen by a panel of 25 eminent scientists, academics, writers and world leaders in 2016, the invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one, with the entry stating: "The fastest growing communications medium of all time, the Internet has changed the shape of modern life forever. We can connect with each other instantly, all over the world."<ref>{{cite web \|title= 80 moments that shaped the world \|url= https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|publisher= [[British Council]] \|access-date= 13 May 2016 \|url-status= dead \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160630220524/https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|archive-date= 30 June 2016 \|df= dmy-all }}</ref>

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	==Career and research==		==Career and research==
	After graduation, Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at the telecommunications company [[Plessey]] in [[Poole]], Dorset.<ref name="W3Bio">{{cite web\|title=Berners-Lee Longer Biography\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html\|access-date=18 January 2011\|website=w3.org\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium}}</ref> In 1978, he joined D. G. Nash in [[Ferndown]], Dorset, where he helped create typesetting software for printers.<ref name="W3Bio" />		After graduation, Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at the telecommunications company Plessey in Poole, Dorset.<ref name="W3Bio">{{cite web\|title=Berners-Lee Longer Biography\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html\|access-date=18 January 2011\|website=w3.org\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium}}</ref> In 1978, he joined D. G. Nash in Ferndown, Dorset, where he helped create typesetting software for printers.<ref name="W3Bio" />

	Berners-Lee worked as an [[independent contractor]] at [[CERN]] from June to December 1980. While in [[Geneva]], he proposed a project based on the concept of [[hypertext]], to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers.<ref>{{cite web \|date=March 1989 \|title=Berners-Lee's original proposal to CERN \|url=http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html \|access-date=25 May 2008 \|website=w3.org \|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium}}</ref> To demonstrate it, he built a prototype system named [[ENQUIRE]].<ref name="linvinginternet">{{cite web\|last=Stewart\|first=Bill\|title=Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web\|url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm\|access-date=22 July 2010}}</ref>		Berners-Lee worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980. While in Geneva, he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers.<ref>{{cite web \|date=March 1989 \|title=Berners-Lee's original proposal to CERN \|url=http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html \|access-date=25 May 2008 \|website=w3.org \|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium}}</ref> To demonstrate it, he built a prototype system named [[ENQUIRE]].<ref name="linvinginternet">{{cite web\|last=Stewart\|first=Bill\|title=Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web\|url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm\|access-date=22 July 2010}}</ref>

	After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset.<ref name="faq">{{cite web\|title=Frequently asked questions\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|access-date=22 July 2010\|first=Tim \|last=Berners-Lee}}</ref> He ran the company's technical side for three years.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Grossman\|first=Wendy\|title=All you never knew about the Net ...\|newspaper=The Independent\|date=15 July 1996}}</ref> The project he worked on was a "[[real-time ~~computing\|real-time]] [[~~remote procedure call]]" which gave him experience in [[computer ~~network]]ing~~.<ref name="faq" /> In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow.<ref name="linvinginternet" />		After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset.<ref name="faq">{{cite web\|title=Frequently asked questions\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|access-date=22 July 2010\|first=Tim \|last=Berners-Lee}}</ref> He ran the company's technical side for three years.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Grossman\|first=Wendy\|title=All you never knew about the Net ...\|newspaper=The Independent\|date=15 July 1996}}</ref> The project he worked on was a "real-time remote procedure call" which gave him experience in computer networking.<ref name="faq" /> In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow.<ref name="linvinginternet" />

	Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first [[web browser]]. His software also functioned as an editor (called [[WorldWideWeb]], running on the [[NeXTSTEP]] operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol ~~[[daemon (computer software)\|~~daemon]]).		Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first web browser. His software also functioned as an editor (called WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).

	Berners-Lee published the first website, which described the project itself, on 20 December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network. The site provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, and how people could use a browser and set up a web server and a website.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Welcome to info.cern.ch, the website of the world's first-ever web server\|publisher=CERN\|url=http://info.cern.ch/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—Archive of world's first website\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|url=http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—First mentioned on USENET\|date=6 August 1991\|url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|access-date=25 May 2008\|archive-date=12 May 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512015304/http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/he-caught-us-all-in-the-web/article24836867.ece\|title=He caught us all in the Web!\|date=1 September 2018\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2 September 2018\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee first posted, on [[Usenet]], a public invitation for collaboration with the WorldWideWeb project.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/25-years-ago-the-world-changed-forever \|title=25 Years ago the world changed forever \|first=Amy \|last=Van der Hiel \|date=4 August 2016 \|website=[[W3C]] \|accessdate=5 August 2021}}</ref>		Berners-Lee published the first website, which described the project itself, on 20 December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network. The site provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, and how people could use a browser and set up a web server and a website.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Welcome to info.cern.ch, the website of the world's first-ever web server\|publisher=CERN\|url=http://info.cern.ch/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—Archive of world's first website\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|url=http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—First mentioned on USENET\|date=6 August 1991\|url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|access-date=25 May 2008\|archive-date=12 May 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512015304/http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/he-caught-us-all-in-the-web/article24836867.ece\|title=He caught us all in the Web!\|date=1 September 2018\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2 September 2018\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee first posted, on Usenet, a public invitation for collaboration with the WorldWideWeb project.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/25-years-ago-the-world-changed-forever \|title=25 Years ago the world changed forever \|first=Amy \|last=Van der Hiel \|date=4 August 2016 \|website=[[W3C]] \|accessdate=5 August 2021}}</ref>

	In a list of 80 cultural moments that shaped the world, chosen by a panel of 25 eminent scientists, academics, writers and world leaders in 2016, the invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one, with the entry stating: "The fastest growing communications medium of all time, the Internet has changed the shape of modern life forever. We can connect with each other instantly, all over the world."<ref>{{cite web \|title= 80 moments that shaped the world \|url= https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|publisher= [[British Council]] \|access-date= 13 May 2016 \|url-status= dead \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160630220524/https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|archive-date= 30 June 2016 \|df= dmy-all }}</ref>		In a list of 80 cultural moments that shaped the world, chosen by a panel of 25 eminent scientists, academics, writers and world leaders in 2016, the invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one, with the entry stating: "The fastest growing communications medium of all time, the Internet has changed the shape of modern life forever. We can connect with each other instantly, all over the world."<ref>{{cite web \|title= 80 moments that shaped the world \|url= https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|publisher= [[British Council]] \|access-date= 13 May 2016 \|url-status= dead \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160630220524/https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|archive-date= 30 June 2016 \|df= dmy-all }}</ref>

	In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. It comprised various companies willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web. Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that its standards should be based on royalty-free technology, so that anyone could easily adopt them.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Patent Policy—5 February 2004\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|date=5 February 2004\|url=http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref>		In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It comprised various companies willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web. Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that its standards should be based on royalty-free technology, so that anyone could easily adopt them.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Patent Policy—5 February 2004\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|date=5 February 2004\|url=http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref>

	For more information, see [[wikipedia:Tim_Berners-Lee\|Wikipedia]].		For more information, see [[wikipedia:Tim_Berners-Lee\|Wikipedia]].

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	After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset.<ref name="faq">{{cite web\|title=Frequently asked questions\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|access-date=22 July 2010\|first=Tim \|last=Berners-Lee}}</ref> He ran the company's technical side for three years.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Grossman\|first=Wendy\|title=All you never knew about the Net ...\|newspaper=The Independent\|date=15 July 1996}}</ref> The project he worked on was a "[[real-time computing\|real-time]] [[remote procedure call]]" which gave him experience in [[computer network]]ing.<ref name="faq" /> In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow.<ref name="linvinginternet" />		After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset.<ref name="faq">{{cite web\|title=Frequently asked questions\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|access-date=22 July 2010\|first=Tim \|last=Berners-Lee}}</ref> He ran the company's technical side for three years.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Grossman\|first=Wendy\|title=All you never knew about the Net ...\|newspaper=The Independent\|date=15 July 1996}}</ref> The project he worked on was a "[[real-time computing\|real-time]] [[remote procedure call]]" which gave him experience in [[computer network]]ing.<ref name="faq" /> In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow.<ref name="linvinginternet" />

	~~In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet [[Node (networking)\|Node]] in Europe and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet:~~

	{{blockquote\|I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the [[Transmission Control Protocol\|TCP]] and [[Domain Name System\|DNS]] ideas and—ta-da!—the World Wide Web.\|author=Tim Berners-Lee<ref>{{cite web\|first=Tim \|last=Berners-Lee\|title=Answers for Young People\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref>}}

	{{blockquote\|Creating the web was really an act of desperation, because the situation without it was very difficult when I was working at CERN later. Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the Internet, multifont text objects, had all been designed already. I just had to put them together. It was a step of generalising, going to a higher level of abstraction, thinking about all the documentation systems out there as being possibly part of a larger imaginary documentation system.\|author=Tim Berners-Lee<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/#interview \|date=22 June 2007 \|title=Visionary of the Internet \|website=www.achievement.org\|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]}}</ref>}}

	~~[[File:First Web Server.jpg\|thumb\|This [[NeXT Computer]] was used by Berners-Lee at [[CERN]] and became the world's first [[web server]].]]~~

	Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first [[web browser]]. His software also functioned as an editor (called [[WorldWideWeb]], running on the [[NeXTSTEP]] operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol [[daemon (computer software)\|daemon]]).		Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first [[web browser]]. His software also functioned as an editor (called [[WorldWideWeb]], running on the [[NeXTSTEP]] operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol [[daemon (computer software)\|daemon]]).

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	'''Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee''' (born 8 June 1955),<ref name="whoswho">{{Who's Who\|title=Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John)\|id=U12699\|author=Anon\|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12699\|year=2015\|edition=online [[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> also known as '''TimBL''', is an English [[computer scientist]] best known as the inventor of the [[World Wide Web]], [[HTML]], the [[URL]] system, and [[HTTP]]. He is a professorial research fellow at the [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee \|url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/tim.berners-lee/ \|access-date=27 May 2020 \|website=Department of Computer Science \|language=en-US}}</ref> and a professor emeritus at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT).<ref>{{cite web \|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Oxford's Department of Computer Science \|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-oxfords-department-computer-science \|access-date=18 September 2018 \|website=ox.ac.uk \|date=27 October 2016 \|agency=University of Oxford}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee {{!}} MIT CSAIL \|url=https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/tim-berners-lee \|access-date=19 September 2021 \|website=www.csail.mit.edu \|language=en-US}}</ref>		'''Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee''' (born 8 June 1955),<ref name="whoswho">{{Who's Who\|title=Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John)\|id=U12699\|author=Anon\|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12699\|year=2015\|edition=online [[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> also known as '''TimBL''', is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the [[WWW\|World Wide Web]], [[HTML]], the [[URL]] system, and [[HTTP]]. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee \|url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/tim.berners-lee/ \|access-date=27 May 2020 \|website=Department of Computer Science \|language=en-US}}</ref> and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<ref>{{cite web \|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Oxford's Department of Computer Science \|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-oxfords-department-computer-science \|access-date=18 September 2018 \|website=ox.ac.uk \|date=27 October 2016 \|agency=University of Oxford}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee {{!}} MIT CSAIL \|url=https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/tim-berners-lee \|access-date=19 September 2021 \|website=www.csail.mit.edu \|language=en-US}}</ref>

	Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989<ref>{{cite web \|last=Foundation \|first=Web \|date=12 March 2019 \|title=30 years on, what's next #ForTheWeb? \|url=https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/ \|website=World Wide Web Foundation \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=info.cern.ch – Tim Berners-Lee's proposal \|url=http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html \|access-date=21 December 2011 \|website=cern.ch \|publisher=Info.cern.ch}}</ref> and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.<ref>Tim Berners Lee's own reference. The exact date is unknown.</ref><ref name="weavingtheweb">{{cite book \| title = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor \| first = Tim \| last = Berners-Lee \| author2 = Mark Fischetti \| location = Britain \| publisher=Orion Business \| year = 1999 \| isbn = 978-0-7528-2090-3\| title-link = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal		Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989<ref>{{cite web \|last=Foundation \|first=Web \|date=12 March 2019 \|title=30 years on, what's next #ForTheWeb? \|url=https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/ \|website=World Wide Web Foundation \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=info.cern.ch – Tim Berners-Lee's proposal \|url=http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html \|access-date=21 December 2011 \|website=cern.ch \|publisher=Info.cern.ch}}</ref> and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.<ref>Tim Berners Lee's own reference. The exact date is unknown.</ref><ref name="weavingtheweb">{{cite book \| title = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor \| first = Tim \| last = Berners-Lee \| author2 = Mark Fischetti \| location = Britain \| publisher=Orion Business \| year = 1999 \| isbn = 978-0-7528-2090-3\| title-link = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal

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	'''Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee''' (born 8 June 1955),<ref name="whoswho">{{Who's Who\|title=Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John)\|id=U12699\|author=Anon\|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12699\|year=2015\|edition=online [[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> also known as '''TimBL''', is an English [[computer scientist]] best known as the inventor of the [[World Wide Web]], [[HTML]], the [[URL]] system, and [[HTTP]]. He is a professorial research fellow at the [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee \|url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/tim.berners-lee/ \|access-date=27 May 2020 \|website=Department of Computer Science \|language=en-US}}</ref> and a professor emeritus at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT).<ref>{{cite web \|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Oxford's Department of Computer Science \|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-oxfords-department-computer-science \|access-date=18 September 2018 \|website=ox.ac.uk \|date=27 October 2016 \|agency=University of Oxford}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee {{!}} MIT CSAIL \|url=https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/tim-berners-lee \|access-date=19 September 2021 \|website=www.csail.mit.edu \|language=en-US}}</ref>		'''Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee''' (born 8 June 1955),<ref name="whoswho">{{Who's Who\|title=Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John)\|id=U12699\|author=Anon\|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12699\|year=2015\|edition=online [[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> also known as '''TimBL''', is an English [[computer scientist]] best known as the inventor of the [[World Wide Web]], [[HTML]], the [[URL]] system, and [[HTTP]]. He is a professorial research fellow at the [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee \|url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/tim.berners-lee/ \|access-date=27 May 2020 \|website=Department of Computer Science \|language=en-US}}</ref> and a professor emeritus at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT).<ref>{{cite web \|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Oxford's Department of Computer Science \|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-oxfords-department-computer-science \|access-date=18 September 2018 \|website=ox.ac.uk \|date=27 October 2016 \|agency=University of Oxford}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee {{!}} MIT CSAIL \|url=https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/tim-berners-lee \|access-date=19 September 2021 \|website=www.csail.mit.edu \|language=en-US}}</ref>

	Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989<ref>{{cite web \|last=Foundation \|first=Web \|date=12 March 2019 \|title=30 years on, what's next #ForTheWeb? \|url=https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/ \|website=World Wide Web Foundation \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=info.cern.ch – Tim Berners-Lee's proposal \|url=http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html \|access-date=21 December 2011 \|website=cern.ch \|publisher=Info.cern.ch}}</ref> and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and ~~[[Server (computing)\|~~server]] via the [[Internet]] in mid-November.<ref>Tim Berners Lee's own reference. The exact date is unknown.</ref><ref name="weavingtheweb">{{cite book \| title = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor \| first = Tim \| last = Berners-Lee \| author2 = Mark Fischetti \| location = Britain \| publisher=Orion Business \| year = 1999 \| isbn = 978-0-7528-2090-3\| title-link = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal		Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989<ref>{{cite web \|last=Foundation \|first=Web \|date=12 March 2019 \|title=30 years on, what's next #ForTheWeb? \|url=https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/ \|website=World Wide Web Foundation \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=info.cern.ch – Tim Berners-Lee's proposal \|url=http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html \|access-date=21 December 2011 \|website=cern.ch \|publisher=Info.cern.ch}}</ref> and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.<ref>Tim Berners Lee's own reference. The exact date is unknown.</ref><ref name="weavingtheweb">{{cite book \| title = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor \| first = Tim \| last = Berners-Lee \| author2 = Mark Fischetti \| location = Britain \| publisher=Orion Business \| year = 1999 \| isbn = 978-0-7528-2090-3\| title-link = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal
	\| doi = 10.1038/scientificamerican1210-80		\| doi = 10.1038/scientificamerican1210-80
	\| last1 = Berners-Lee \| first1 = T.		\| last1 = Berners-Lee \| first1 = T.

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	'''Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee''' (born 8 June 1955),<ref name="whoswho">{{Who's Who\|title=Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John)\|id=U12699\|author=Anon\|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12699\|year=2015\|edition=online [[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> also known as '''TimBL''', is an English [[computer scientist]] best known as the inventor of the [[World Wide Web]], [[HTML]], the [[URL]] system, and [[HTTP]]. He is a professorial research fellow at the [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee \|url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/tim.berners-lee/ \|access-date=27 May 2020 \|website=Department of Computer Science \|language=en-US}}</ref> and a professor [[emeritus]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT).<ref>{{cite web \|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Oxford's Department of Computer Science \|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-oxfords-department-computer-science \|access-date=18 September 2018 \|website=ox.ac.uk \|date=27 October 2016 \|agency=University of Oxford}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee {{!}} MIT CSAIL \|url=https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/tim-berners-lee \|access-date=19 September 2021 \|website=www.csail.mit.edu \|language=en-US}}</ref>		'''Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee''' (born 8 June 1955),<ref name="whoswho">{{Who's Who\|title=Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John)\|id=U12699\|author=Anon\|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12699\|year=2015\|edition=online [[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> also known as '''TimBL''', is an English [[computer scientist]] best known as the inventor of the [[World Wide Web]], [[HTML]], the [[URL]] system, and [[HTTP]]. He is a professorial research fellow at the [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee \|url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/tim.berners-lee/ \|access-date=27 May 2020 \|website=Department of Computer Science \|language=en-US}}</ref> and a professor emeritus at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT).<ref>{{cite web \|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Oxford's Department of Computer Science \|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-oxfords-department-computer-science \|access-date=18 September 2018 \|website=ox.ac.uk \|date=27 October 2016 \|agency=University of Oxford}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Tim Berners-Lee {{!}} MIT CSAIL \|url=https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/tim-berners-lee \|access-date=19 September 2021 \|website=www.csail.mit.edu \|language=en-US}}</ref>

	Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989<ref>{{cite web \|last=Foundation \|first=Web \|date=12 March 2019 \|title=30 years on, what's next #ForTheWeb? \|url=https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/ \|website=World Wide Web Foundation \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=info.cern.ch – Tim Berners-Lee's proposal \|url=http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html \|access-date=21 December 2011 \|website=cern.ch \|publisher=Info.cern.ch}}</ref> and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and [[Server (computing)\|server]] via the [[Internet]] in mid-November.<ref>Tim Berners Lee's own reference. The exact date is unknown.</ref><ref name="weavingtheweb">{{cite book \| title = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor \| first = Tim \| last = Berners-Lee \| author2 = Mark Fischetti \| location = Britain \| publisher=Orion Business \| year = 1999 \| isbn = 978-0-7528-2090-3\| title-link = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal		Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989<ref>{{cite web \|last=Foundation \|first=Web \|date=12 March 2019 \|title=30 years on, what's next #ForTheWeb? \|url=https://webfoundation.org/2019/03/web-birthday-30/ \|website=World Wide Web Foundation \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=info.cern.ch – Tim Berners-Lee's proposal \|url=http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html \|access-date=21 December 2011 \|website=cern.ch \|publisher=Info.cern.ch}}</ref> and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and [[Server (computing)\|server]] via the [[Internet]] in mid-November.<ref>Tim Berners Lee's own reference. The exact date is unknown.</ref><ref name="weavingtheweb">{{cite book \| title = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor \| first = Tim \| last = Berners-Lee \| author2 = Mark Fischetti \| location = Britain \| publisher=Orion Business \| year = 1999 \| isbn = 978-0-7528-2090-3\| title-link = Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal
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	\| s2cid = 5104030		\| s2cid = 5104030
	\| url-access = subscription}}</ref> He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server and helped foster the Web's subsequent development. He is the founder and emeritus director of the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web. He co-founded (with [[Rosemary Leith]]) the [[World Wide Web Foundation]]. In 2009, he was elected [[Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web\|title=Timothy Berners-Lee Elected to National Academy of Sciences\|url=http://www.ddj.com/217200450\|publisher=Dr. Dobb's Journal\|access-date=9 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release\|access-date=17 January 2011\|date=28 April 2009\|title=72 New Members Chosen By Academy\|publisher=United States National Academy of Sciences\|url=http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=04282009}}</ref>		\| url-access = subscription}}</ref> He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server and helped foster the Web's subsequent development. He is the founder and emeritus director of the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web.

	Berners-Lee was previously a senior researcher and holder of the [[3Com]] founder's chair at the [[MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]] (CSAIL).<ref>{{cite web \|last=Schorow \|first=Stephanie \|date=5 January 2007 \|title=Draper Prize \|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/draper-prize.html \|access-date=25 May 2008 \|website=mit.edu \|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}</ref> He is a director of the [[Web Science Research Initiative]] (WSRI)<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://webscience.org/about/people/ \|access-date=17 January 2011\|title=People\|publisher=The Web Science Research Initiative \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080628052526/http://webscience.org/about/people/ \|archive-date = 28 June 2008}}</ref> and a member of the advisory board of the [[MIT Center for Collective Intelligence]].<ref>{{cite web \|title=MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (homepage) \|url=http://cci.mit.edu \|access-date=15 August 2010 \|website=mit.edu \|publisher=Cci.mit.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://cci.mit.edu/people/index.html \|title=MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (people) \|publisher=Cci.mit.edu \|access-date=15 August 2010 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611041615/http://cci.mit.edu/people/index.html \|archive-date=11 June 2010 }}</ref> In 2011, he was named a member of the board of trustees of the [[Ford Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://webfoundation.org/2011/09/sir-tim-berners-lee-ford-board/\|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee Named to the Ford Foundation Board\|last=Bratt\|first=Steve\|date=29 September 2011\|website=World Wide Foundation\|access-date=22 August 2017}}</ref> He is a founder and president of the [[Open Data Institute]] and is an advisor at social network [[MeWe]].<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-tim-berners-lee-s-app-mewe-is-used-by-neo-nazis-and-perverts-svflhn32s\|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee's app MeWe is used by neo-Nazis and perverts\|last1=Shukman\|first1=Harry\|date=8 January 2019\|work=The Times\|access-date=12 March 2019\|last2=Bridge\|first2=Mark\|language=en\|issn=0140-0460}}</ref> In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen [[Elizabeth II]] for his pioneering work.<ref name="tecb">{{cite news \| title =Web's inventor gets a knighthood \|work=BBC News		In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work.<ref name="tecb">{{cite news \| title =Web's inventor gets a knighthood \|work=BBC News
	\|date=31 December 2003		\|date=31 December 2003
	\| url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3357073.stm		\| url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3357073.stm
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	\| url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3899723.stm		\| url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3899723.stm
	\| access-date=10 November 2015 }}</ref> He received the 2016 [[Turing Award]] "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale".<ref name="Asso. Computing Machinery-2016">{{cite web\|url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/berners-lee_8087960.cfm\|title=A. M. Turing Award\|date=2016\|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery\|access-date=4 April 2017}}</ref> He was named in ~~''[[Time (magazine)\|~~Time~~]]''~~ magazine's list of the ~~[[Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century\|~~100 Most Important People of the 20th century]] and has received a ~~[[Awards and honours presented to Tim Berners-Lee\|~~number of other accolades]] for his invention.<ref name="Time">{{cite news \| title= Tim Berners Lee—Time 100 People of the Century \|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990627,00.html		\| access-date=10 November 2015 }}</ref> He received the 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale".<ref name="Asso. Computing Machinery-2016">{{cite web\|url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/berners-lee_8087960.cfm\|title=A. M. Turing Award\|date=2016\|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery\|access-date=4 April 2017}}</ref> He was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century and has received a number of other accolades for his invention.<ref name="Time">{{cite news \| title= Tim Berners Lee—Time 100 People of the Century \|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990627,00.html
	\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071016213128/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990627,00.html		\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071016213128/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990627,00.html
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	~~==Further reading==~~
	~~{{Refbegin}}~~
	* {{cite magazine \|last=Brooker \|first=Katrina \|date=August 2018 \|title='I Was Devastated': Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets \|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets \|magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)\|Vanity Fair]]}}
	* Cailliau, Robert; James Gillies (2000). ''How the Web Was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web''. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN\|0-19-286207-3}}.
	* Frauenfelder, Mark (October 2004). [http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/13784/ ''Technology Review'' interview] ({{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128200636/http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/13784/ \|date=28 November 2011 }}).
	* Gaines, Ann (2001). ''Tim Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide Web''. Unlocking the Secrets of Science. Mitchell Lane Publishers. {{ISBN\|1-58415-096-3}}.
	* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4132752.stm Transcript of video interview of Berners-Lee on the read/write Web] on [[BBC2]]'s ''[[Newsnight]]''.
	* Porter, Scott (11 February 2009). [http://computemagazine.com/man-who-invented-world-wide-web-gives-new-definition/ "Man Who Invented the World Wide Web Gives it New Definition"] ({{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412130543/http://computemagazine.com/man-who-invented-world-wide-web-gives-new-definition \|date=12 April 2011 }}). ''Compute Magazine''.
	* Stewart, Melissa (2001). ''Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web''. Ferguson's Career Biographies. Ferguson Publishing Company. {{ISBN\|0-89434-367-X}}. Children's biography.
	~~{{Refend}}~~

	~~==External links==~~
	~~{{Sister project links \|auto=yes}}~~
	* [http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ Tim Berners-Lee] on the W3C site
	* {{TED speaker}}
	* {{C-SPAN\|42432}}

	~~{{s-start}}~~
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	~~{{s-ttl\|title = [[Millennium Technology Prize]] winner\|years = 2004 (for the [[World Wide Web]])}}~~
	~~{{s-aft\|after = [[Shuji Nakamura]]}}~~
	~~{{s-end}}~~
	~~{{Telecommunications}}~~
	~~{{Charles Stark Draper Prize}}~~
	~~{{Japan Prize}}~~
	~~{{Internet Hall of Fame}}~~
	~~{{FRS 2001}}~~
	~~{{Turing Award laureates}}~~
	~~{{Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research}}~~
	~~{{Portal bar\|Biography\|Internet\|Technology\|Systems science\|University of Oxford\|Free and open-source software}}~~
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 In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. It comprised various companies willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web. Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that its standards should be based on royalty-free technology, so that anyone could easily adopt them.<ref>{{cite web|title=Patent Policy—5&nbsp;February&nbsp;2004|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium|date=5 February 2004|url=http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref>
-Berners-Lee participated in Curl Corp's attempt to develop and promote the [[Curl (programming language)|Curl programming language]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/29/business/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-wants-personal-empowerment-users-through-his-data-startup/| title = Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants 'personal empowerment' for users, through his data startup | website= The Boston Globe | date=29 December 2020}}</ref>
+For more information, see [[wikipedia:Tim_Berners-Lee|Wikipedia]].
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	Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first web browser. His software also functioned as an editor (called WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).		Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first web browser. His software also functioned as an editor (called WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).

	Berners-Lee published the first website, which described the project itself, on 20 December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network. The site provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, and how people could use a browser and set up a web server and a website.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Welcome to info.cern.ch, the website of the world's first-ever web server\|publisher=CERN\|url=http://info.cern.ch/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—Archive of world's first website\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|url=http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—First mentioned on USENET\|date=6 August 1991\|url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|access-date=25 May 2008\|archive-date=12 May 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512015304/http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/he-caught-us-all-in-the-web/article24836867.ece\|title=He caught us all in the Web!\|date=1 September 2018\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2 September 2018\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee first posted, on Usenet, a public invitation for collaboration with the WorldWideWeb project.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/25-years-ago-the-world-changed-forever \|title=25 Years ago the world changed forever \|first=Amy \|last=Van der Hiel \|date=4 August 2016 \|website=[[W3C]] \|accessdate=5 August 2021}}</ref>		Berners-Lee published the first website, which described the project itself, on 20 December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network. The site provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, and how people could use a browser and set up a web server and a website.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Welcome to info.cern.ch, the website of the world's first-ever web server\|publisher=CERN\|url=http://info.cern.ch/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—Archive of world's first website\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|url=http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—First mentioned on USENET\|date=6 August 1991\|url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|access-date=25 May 2008\|archive-date=12 May 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512015304/http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/he-caught-us-all-in-the-web/article24836867.ece\|title=He caught us all in the Web!\|date=1 September 2018\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2 September 2018\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee first posted, on Usenet, a public invitation for collaboration with the [[WorldWideWeb]] project.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/25-years-ago-the-world-changed-forever \|title=25 Years ago the world changed forever \|first=Amy \|last=Van der Hiel \|date=4 August 2016 \|website=[[W3C]] \|accessdate=5 August 2021}}</ref>

	In a list of 80 cultural moments that shaped the world, chosen by a panel of 25 eminent scientists, academics, writers and world leaders in 2016, the invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one, with the entry stating: "The fastest growing communications medium of all time, the Internet has changed the shape of modern life forever. We can connect with each other instantly, all over the world."<ref>{{cite web \|title= 80 moments that shaped the world \|url= https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|publisher= [[British Council]] \|access-date= 13 May 2016 \|url-status= dead \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160630220524/https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|archive-date= 30 June 2016 \|df= dmy-all }}</ref>		In a list of 80 cultural moments that shaped the world, chosen by a panel of 25 eminent scientists, academics, writers and world leaders in 2016, the invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one, with the entry stating: "The fastest growing communications medium of all time, the Internet has changed the shape of modern life forever. We can connect with each other instantly, all over the world."<ref>{{cite web \|title= 80 moments that shaped the world \|url= https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|publisher= [[British Council]] \|access-date= 13 May 2016 \|url-status= dead \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160630220524/https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|archive-date= 30 June 2016 \|df= dmy-all }}</ref>

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	==Career and research==		==Career and research==
	After graduation, Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at the telecommunications company [[Plessey]] in [[Poole]], Dorset.<ref name="W3Bio">{{cite web\|title=Berners-Lee Longer Biography\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html\|access-date=18 January 2011\|website=w3.org\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium}}</ref> In 1978, he joined D. G. Nash in [[Ferndown]], Dorset, where he helped create typesetting software for printers.<ref name="W3Bio" />		After graduation, Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at the telecommunications company Plessey in Poole, Dorset.<ref name="W3Bio">{{cite web\|title=Berners-Lee Longer Biography\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html\|access-date=18 January 2011\|website=w3.org\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium}}</ref> In 1978, he joined D. G. Nash in Ferndown, Dorset, where he helped create typesetting software for printers.<ref name="W3Bio" />

	Berners-Lee worked as an [[independent contractor]] at [[CERN]] from June to December 1980. While in [[Geneva]], he proposed a project based on the concept of [[hypertext]], to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers.<ref>{{cite web \|date=March 1989 \|title=Berners-Lee's original proposal to CERN \|url=http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html \|access-date=25 May 2008 \|website=w3.org \|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium}}</ref> To demonstrate it, he built a prototype system named [[ENQUIRE]].<ref name="linvinginternet">{{cite web\|last=Stewart\|first=Bill\|title=Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web\|url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm\|access-date=22 July 2010}}</ref>		Berners-Lee worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980. While in Geneva, he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers.<ref>{{cite web \|date=March 1989 \|title=Berners-Lee's original proposal to CERN \|url=http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html \|access-date=25 May 2008 \|website=w3.org \|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium}}</ref> To demonstrate it, he built a prototype system named [[ENQUIRE]].<ref name="linvinginternet">{{cite web\|last=Stewart\|first=Bill\|title=Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web\|url=http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm\|access-date=22 July 2010}}</ref>

	After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset.<ref name="faq">{{cite web\|title=Frequently asked questions\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|access-date=22 July 2010\|first=Tim \|last=Berners-Lee}}</ref> He ran the company's technical side for three years.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Grossman\|first=Wendy\|title=All you never knew about the Net ...\|newspaper=The Independent\|date=15 July 1996}}</ref> The project he worked on was a "[[real-time ~~computing\|real-time]] [[~~remote procedure call]]" which gave him experience in [[computer ~~network]]ing~~.<ref name="faq" /> In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow.<ref name="linvinginternet" />		After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset.<ref name="faq">{{cite web\|title=Frequently asked questions\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|access-date=22 July 2010\|first=Tim \|last=Berners-Lee}}</ref> He ran the company's technical side for three years.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Grossman\|first=Wendy\|title=All you never knew about the Net ...\|newspaper=The Independent\|date=15 July 1996}}</ref> The project he worked on was a "real-time remote procedure call" which gave him experience in computer networking.<ref name="faq" /> In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow.<ref name="linvinginternet" />

	Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first [[web browser]]. His software also functioned as an editor (called [[WorldWideWeb]], running on the [[NeXTSTEP]] operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol ~~[[daemon (computer software)\|~~daemon]]).		Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first web browser. His software also functioned as an editor (called WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).

	Berners-Lee published the first website, which described the project itself, on 20 December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network. The site provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, and how people could use a browser and set up a web server and a website.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Welcome to info.cern.ch, the website of the world's first-ever web server\|publisher=CERN\|url=http://info.cern.ch/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—Archive of world's first website\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|url=http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—First mentioned on USENET\|date=6 August 1991\|url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|access-date=25 May 2008\|archive-date=12 May 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512015304/http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/he-caught-us-all-in-the-web/article24836867.ece\|title=He caught us all in the Web!\|date=1 September 2018\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2 September 2018\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee first posted, on [[Usenet]], a public invitation for collaboration with the WorldWideWeb project.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/25-years-ago-the-world-changed-forever \|title=25 Years ago the world changed forever \|first=Amy \|last=Van der Hiel \|date=4 August 2016 \|website=[[W3C]] \|accessdate=5 August 2021}}</ref>		Berners-Lee published the first website, which described the project itself, on 20 December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network. The site provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, and how people could use a browser and set up a web server and a website.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Welcome to info.cern.ch, the website of the world's first-ever web server\|publisher=CERN\|url=http://info.cern.ch/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—Archive of world's first website\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|url=http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=World Wide Web—First mentioned on USENET\|date=6 August 1991\|url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|access-date=25 May 2008\|archive-date=12 May 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512015304/http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/he-caught-us-all-in-the-web/article24836867.ece\|title=He caught us all in the Web!\|date=1 September 2018\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2 September 2018\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> On 6 August 1991, Berners-Lee first posted, on Usenet, a public invitation for collaboration with the WorldWideWeb project.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/08/25-years-ago-the-world-changed-forever \|title=25 Years ago the world changed forever \|first=Amy \|last=Van der Hiel \|date=4 August 2016 \|website=[[W3C]] \|accessdate=5 August 2021}}</ref>

	In a list of 80 cultural moments that shaped the world, chosen by a panel of 25 eminent scientists, academics, writers and world leaders in 2016, the invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one, with the entry stating: "The fastest growing communications medium of all time, the Internet has changed the shape of modern life forever. We can connect with each other instantly, all over the world."<ref>{{cite web \|title= 80 moments that shaped the world \|url= https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|publisher= [[British Council]] \|access-date= 13 May 2016 \|url-status= dead \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160630220524/https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|archive-date= 30 June 2016 \|df= dmy-all }}</ref>		In a list of 80 cultural moments that shaped the world, chosen by a panel of 25 eminent scientists, academics, writers and world leaders in 2016, the invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one, with the entry stating: "The fastest growing communications medium of all time, the Internet has changed the shape of modern life forever. We can connect with each other instantly, all over the world."<ref>{{cite web \|title= 80 moments that shaped the world \|url= https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|publisher= [[British Council]] \|access-date= 13 May 2016 \|url-status= dead \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160630220524/https://www.britishcouncil.org/80moments/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5655166218 \|archive-date= 30 June 2016 \|df= dmy-all }}</ref>

	In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. It comprised various companies willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web. Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that its standards should be based on royalty-free technology, so that anyone could easily adopt them.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Patent Policy—5 February 2004\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|date=5 February 2004\|url=http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref>		In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It comprised various companies willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web. Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that its standards should be based on royalty-free technology, so that anyone could easily adopt them.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Patent Policy—5 February 2004\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|date=5 February 2004\|url=http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref>

	For more information, see [[wikipedia:Tim_Berners-Lee\|Wikipedia]].		For more information, see [[wikipedia:Tim_Berners-Lee\|Wikipedia]].

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	After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset.<ref name="faq">{{cite web\|title=Frequently asked questions\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|access-date=22 July 2010\|first=Tim \|last=Berners-Lee}}</ref> He ran the company's technical side for three years.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Grossman\|first=Wendy\|title=All you never knew about the Net ...\|newspaper=The Independent\|date=15 July 1996}}</ref> The project he worked on was a "[[real-time computing\|real-time]] [[remote procedure call]]" which gave him experience in [[computer network]]ing.<ref name="faq" /> In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow.<ref name="linvinginternet" />		After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset.<ref name="faq">{{cite web\|title=Frequently asked questions\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|access-date=22 July 2010\|first=Tim \|last=Berners-Lee}}</ref> He ran the company's technical side for three years.<ref>{{cite news\|last=Grossman\|first=Wendy\|title=All you never knew about the Net ...\|newspaper=The Independent\|date=15 July 1996}}</ref> The project he worked on was a "[[real-time computing\|real-time]] [[remote procedure call]]" which gave him experience in [[computer network]]ing.<ref name="faq" /> In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow.<ref name="linvinginternet" />

	~~In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet [[Node (networking)\|Node]] in Europe and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet:~~

	{{blockquote\|I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the [[Transmission Control Protocol\|TCP]] and [[Domain Name System\|DNS]] ideas and—ta-da!—the World Wide Web.\|author=Tim Berners-Lee<ref>{{cite web\|first=Tim \|last=Berners-Lee\|title=Answers for Young People\|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium\|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html\|access-date=25 May 2008}}</ref>}}

	{{blockquote\|Creating the web was really an act of desperation, because the situation without it was very difficult when I was working at CERN later. Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the Internet, multifont text objects, had all been designed already. I just had to put them together. It was a step of generalising, going to a higher level of abstraction, thinking about all the documentation systems out there as being possibly part of a larger imaginary documentation system.\|author=Tim Berners-Lee<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/#interview \|date=22 June 2007 \|title=Visionary of the Internet \|website=www.achievement.org\|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]}}</ref>}}

	~~[[File:First Web Server.jpg\|thumb\|This [[NeXT Computer]] was used by Berners-Lee at [[CERN]] and became the world's first [[web server]].]]~~

	Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first [[web browser]]. His software also functioned as an editor (called [[WorldWideWeb]], running on the [[NeXTSTEP]] operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol [[daemon (computer software)\|daemon]]).		Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and redistributed it in 1990. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals "vague, but exciting".<ref>{{cite web\|title=Ten Years Public Domain for the Original Web Software\|url=http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|publisher=CERN\|access-date=21 July 2010\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116205636/http://tenyears-www.web.cern.ch/tenyears-www/Story/WelcomeStory.html\|archivedate=16 November 2010\|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Cailliau]] had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground.<ref name="linvinginternet" /> They used similar ideas to those underlying the [[ENQUIRE]] system to create the [[World Wide Web]], for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first [[web browser]]. His software also functioned as an editor (called [[WorldWideWeb]], running on the [[NeXTSTEP]] operating system), and the first Web server, [[CERN httpd]] (Hypertext Transfer Protocol [[daemon (computer software)\|daemon]]).