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| Tim Berners-Lee is an English man who could quite rightly be called the father
of the World Wide Web. As early as 1980 he had
written, although it was never published, a hypertext system called
Enquire. It was for his personal use, and used for storing
information including using random associations. |
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| It was in 1989 when he proposed a global hypertext project that
would become known as the World Wide Web. It was designed
to allow people to collaborate and share knowledge across a web
of hypertext. He wrote the first world wide web server software,
called "httpd" He also wrote the first browser, called "WorldWideWeb".
This was made available at CERN (the European Particle Physics Laboratory
in Geneva) in December 1990, having only been started in October, and
made publicly available on the internet in mid 1991. |
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| Tim is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) which coordinates the development of the Web and associated things such
as HTML, XML etc.. standards &
recomendations. |
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