Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy John
Published: August 18, 2006, 2:47 pm
Updated: March 29, 2012, 2:47 pm
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (1955-), a British-educated scientist known as the creator of the Internet’s World Wide Web. In 1989, while working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics center, located near Geneva, Switzerland), Berners-Lee described an information system that would create a web of information. In 1990, he designed a suite of tools that now define our use of the Internet: the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the language computers use to communicate hypertext documents; a scheme to give documents addresses on the Internet that he called a Universal Resource Identifier (URI), now known as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL); and a client program (browser) to retrieve and view hypertext documents that he called the "World Wide Web." Berners-Lee set up the first web server known as "info.cern.ch." at CERN.
Further Reading
Tim Berners-Lee-Personal Site
Johnson, Bobbie, Aug. 12, 2005. The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee. The Guardian.
Tim Berners-Lee : The Man who Founded WWW
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Cutler J. Cleveland (Lead Author);Tom Lawrence (Topic Editor) "Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy John". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth August 18, 2006; Last revised Date March 29, 2012; Retrieved June 19, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Berners-Lee,_Sir_Timothy_John>
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Cutler J. Cleveland is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Professor Cleveland is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, the Dictionary of Energy (Elsevier, 2005), Handbook of Energy (Elsevier, forthcoming), and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. He is the recipient of the Adelma ... (Full Bio)
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (1955-), a British-educated scientist known as the creator of the Internet’s World Wide Web. In 1989, while working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics center, located near Geneva, Switzerland), Berners-Lee described an information system that would create a web of information. In 1990, he designed a suite of tools that now define our use of the Internet: the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the language computers use to communicate hypertext documents; a scheme to give documents addresses on the Internet that he called a Universal Resource Identifier (URI), now known as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL); and a client program (browser) to retrieve and view hypertext documents that he called the "World Wide Web." Berners-Lee set up the first web server known as "info.cern.ch." at CERN.
Further Reading
Tim Berners-Lee-Personal Site
Johnson, Bobbie, Aug. 12, 2005. The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee. The Guardian.
Tim Berners-Lee : The Man who Founded WWW
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Add CommentAimBin AB wrote:
I have read this article ..... a good one... but i have also found some interesting material at http://freefeast.info/personality-motivation/tim-berners-lee-the-man-who-founded-www/ regarding Sir Tim Berners Lee .... Thought you people might like it...
Lyle Birkey wrote:
Thanks for the additional info, AimBin. I've added your resource to the "Further Reading" section of this article.