Tim Berners-Lee. View of Tim Berners-Lee,British computer scientist and principal developer of the World Wide Web (WWW,or Web). Berners-Lee studied at Oxford University,England. While working at CERN,Switzerland,he developed the Web,a global network for information sharing based on hyper- text documents: text documents which have other data,such as images or links to other computers,embedded in them. The Web started in 1989,and now links thousands of host computers through the Internet. Berners-Lee left CERN in 1994,and joined MIT,in Massachusetts,USA. He also directs the W3 Consortium,a forum dedicated to realising the Web's full potential. Photographed in 1999 |