Who Is Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim is the father of the World Wide Web. He graduated from Oxford University “an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.”
Tim achievement in life is he invented the World Wide Web (www) and He developed URL including HTTP. In 1995 he received “Kilby young innovator” award from “The Kilby Awards Foundation”. The following year on July 1996 he received from the British Computer Society the Distinguished Fellowship award. All the following years from 1997 to 2004 Tim has been awarded with many awards like in 1997 he got the “IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, the Duddell Medal of the Institute of Physics, the Interactive Services Association's Distinguished Service Award, the MCI Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for Leadership in Innovation, The International Communication Institute's Columbus Prize, and an OBE” and many more. Tim is now a professor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Having the World Wide Web definitely is one of the greatest things that can happen for man. I appreciate Tim for inventing the World Wide Web it has been a great part of my life since I was a kid. I basically grew up with it and pretty much use it every day as much as I can. I use it for school research and study, for communicating with my family and friends, entertainment and so much more that the World Wide Web can offer. I cannot imagine the world with-out the World Wide Web it would properly be a disaster for me and for so many people on the world. I have learned many things through the internet from small things like fixing a watch to doing a drawing for my major. It is my best friends and will be for the rest of this life. I will continue to learn through the internet and work with it for as long as I can.
Cites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
http://www.ihachieve.org/honorees/berners-Lee_t.htm
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/berners_lee.html
