Tim Berners-Lee

 

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, a.k.a. Tim BL, was a well-known computer scientist from England. Initially, he worked as a researcher at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Later, Tim became a Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. Currently, he is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Important contributions and achievements

1. Tim BL invented the World Wide Web (WWW).
2. Tim BL was awarded the Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II.
3. He invented the three major requirements of WWW: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Uniform Resource Locator(URL), and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
4. He launched the first website https:// info.cern.ch.
5. He co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation.
6. He founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.