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Birth
Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 5th 1955 in London, England. -
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Schooling
Went to Emanual School London from 1969 to 1973 -
Graduation
1973 to 1976 graduated at the Queens College, Oxford university England where he recieved 1st class degree in physics. -
Designing computer languages
By 1976, Tim had the knowledge and experience with building computers and now it was time to start computer languages. He spent a few years developing them. -
Job
1978, Tim worked at D.G. Nash Limited where he wrote typesetting software. -
independent contractor
At this stage of Tim's life, he had been employed as an independent contractor at CERN in Switzerland. He had to build software. -
New Job
Started in a new job called John Pooles image computer systems. This gave him experience in computer networking. -
Back to CERN
he went back to work at CERN with a permanent persition. -
The peak of his career
The peak of Tim's career was when he produced the first version of the world wide web, the first web browser, and the first web server. This was all succeeded with the help of Robert Cailliau. -
First Marriage
Tim married Nancy Carlson, an American computer programmer and former figure skater, in Connecticut in 1990. -
launched
This day, the world wide web was launched on the internet making it available for the entire public world. -
First website launched to the public
First website was built at CERN and put online on the 6th August. -
Record Web Servers
In 1992 there were over 50 web servers in the world. -
Website hits
By summer 1993 the site was getting 10 thousand hits a day. -
W3C
In 1994, Berners-Lee founded W3C (World Wide Web consortium) at the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. -
6th member
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. -
Professor
He became a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK, in December 2004. There he worked on the Semantic Web -
World Wide Web Foundation
Tim launched a charity called the World Wide Web Foundation in Uganda in 2009. This foundation goes towards the improvement and development of the world wide web. -
WWW More Public
In 2009, he worked in a project set up by Gordon Brown to help make UK data more publicly available. -
Remarried
Tim divorced his wife Nancy Carlson and remarried to Rosemary Leith whom he had partnered with on internet projects.
