Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee (aka TimBL, aka TBL), is often referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.

In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It comprised various companies willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Internet. The agreement on technical standards was an essential development to the subsequent spread of internet technologies. Another contribution Berners-Lee made towards the spread of the internet, as we know it, was to emphasize royalty-free technology, a belief that has been adopted by those advocating open source initiatives.

Berners-Lee continues to be a vocal contributor to the discussion about the shaping of the internet. Among several tenants he advocates is the importance of being able to contribute to, as well as browse the internet, and the benefit of keeping the structure of the web non-hierarchical.

PublicationsEdit

• Weaving the Web: Origins and Future of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee (with Mark Fischetti) (Texere Publishing, 1999)
• Tim Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide Web (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) Ann Gaines (Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2001)
• Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web (Ferguson's Career Biographies) Melissa Stewart (Ferguson Publishing Company, 2001)
• How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University Press, 2000)

External linksEdit

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• How the web went world wide
• Tim Berners-Lee laureate of the Millennium Technology Prize
• Profile of Tim Berners-Lee – patron of East Dorset Heritage Trust
• Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor, to join ECS
• School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton
• Audio interview - 2005-11-19
• BBC2 Newsnight – Video interview clip of Berners-Lee on the read/write Web
• Technology Review interview
• Audio interview by Christopher Lydon
• Berners-Lee's home page
• Berners-Lee's blog
• Berners-Lee's book Weaving The Web which details his views on the history and future of the Web.
• World Wide Web Consortium
• The W3 History page
• Berners-Lee's original proposal to CERN
• Archive of the world's first Web site (November 13, 1990)
• Tim Berners-Lee at the Notable Names Database
• Berners-Lee talk entited "The Future Of The Web" given at the Oxford internet institute High resolution MP4 Low Resolution MP4 Slides for the talk
• Interview: Sir Tim Berners-Lee from C|Net

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