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Vannevar Bush proposed the basics of hypertext (hypertext is a text displayed on a computer etc allowing the user to see other text that relate to the text).
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Born in London England. To parents Conway Berners Lee and Mary Lee Woods.
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Went to Emanual School London from 1969 to 1973
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1973 to 1976 graduated at the Queens College, Oxford university England where he recieved 1st class degree in physics
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1978, Tim worked at D.G. Nash Limited where he wrote typesetting software.
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Tim got a contract job as a software consultant in a company called CERN. He created the idea of sharing ideas quickly by a system called Enquire (this is similar to the world wide web).
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Started in a new job called John Pooles image computer systems. This gave him experience in computer networking.
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he went back to work at CERN with a permanent persition.
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Tim saw that he could join a company called CERN which is the largest internet node in Europe.
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Tim Berners Lee and Robert Cailliau made changes to his original thoughts and ideas and created a software that enabled anyone to get information from the computer they were using this is the design of the World Wide Web. This was the first browser.
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First website was built at CERN and put online on the 6th August.
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In 1992 there were over 50 web servers in the world.
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By summer 1993 the site was getting 10 thousand hits a day.
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1994, he became one of 6th members of the World Wide Web. They decided to improve the standards and allow anyone to be able to access freely.
