====== Sir Tim Berners-Lee ======

Sir Tim Berners-Lee (as pictured on [[http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/|his web site]]) invented the [[www|world-wide web]] while working at CERN during the late 1980s. From a technical point of view, Berners-Lee's contribution was four-fold: he adapted the already existing idea of hypertext to provide a distributed information system that would work over the internet; he created the [[http|hypertext transfer protocol]]; the concept of a [[URL|Uniform Resource Locator]] and the [[http|Hypertext Markup Language]]. He is currently director of the [[w3c|World Wide Web Consortium]] and a professor at both MIT and Southampton. He was knighted in 2003. A short biography is [[http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/#Bio|here]]. ---- [[Glossary]] : [[glossary#A|A]] | [[glossary#B|B]] | [[glossary#C|C]] | [[glossary#D|D]] | [[glossary#E|E]] | [[glossary#F|F]] | [[glossary#G|G]] | [[glossary#H|H]] | [[glossary#I|I]] | [[glossary#J|J]] | [[glossary#K|K]] | [[glossary#L|L]] | [[glossary#M|M]] | [[glossary#N|N]] | [[glossary#O|P]] | [[glossary#Q|Q]] | [[glossary#R|R]] | [[glossary#S|S]] | [[glossary#T|T]] | [[glossary#U|U]] | [[glossary#V|V]] | [[glossary#W|W]] | [[glossary#X|X]] | [[glossary#Y|Y]] | [[glossary#Z|Z]]