Tim Berners-Lee Quotes


The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.


Citations

Moore, Matthew. "Tim Berners-Lee: 'I invented the web just because I needed it, really'." The Telegraph, 17 Jun. 2009.

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Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
  • Born: June 8, 1955
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Professor Computer Science

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989, then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.