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Week 4 Homework
Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee was born on June 8th 1955 in London, England. The son of two computer scientists, he was educated at Oxford as a physicist. Shortly after graduating he received a fellowship to join CERN. Timothy worked with his colleagues at CERN creating a global communication protocol that would allow standardized communication between servers and their clients. This protocol (HTTP) was the foundation and marked the beginning of the World Wide Web. Timothy joined MIT’s Computer Sciences Laboratory in 1994 as director of the World Wide Web Consortium. He is widely considered one of the primary inventors of the World Wide Web and has received numerous honors but avoids the spotlight and has not tried to profit from his invention that has truly changed the way the world communicates.