Tim Berners-Lee
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, 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 fell
Berners-Lee in 2025
Berners-Lee, 2005
This NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first web server.
Tim Berners-Lee at the Home Office, London, on 11 March 2010
CERN
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also called European Laboratory for Particle Physics, known as CERN, is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics lab
Tim Berners-Lee
…he joined D. G. Nash in Ferndown, Dorset, where he helped create typesetting software for printers. 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…
CERN's main site in Meyrin, Switzerland, looking towards the French border
This Cisco Systems router at CERN was one of the first IP routers deployed in Europe.
A plaque at CERN commemorating the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau