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Tim Berners-Lee and the Beginning of the Internet

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June, 1955) is a British engineer, computer scientist and MIT professor who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web. He invented the internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. With the help of Robert Cailliau he implemented the first successful communication between and HTTP client and server via the Internet.

Berners-Lee is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifics, guidelines, software and tools).