Tim BernersLees Life Story

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Tim Berners-Lees Life Story

• by Piotr Smulikowski

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So Who is He?
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Contents

• Background
• Inventing the WorldWideWeb
• Beginning
• Www, Http, Html
• W3C
• The present

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Background

• Born 1955 in London
• Studied Physics at Oxford University
• Interested in electronics and computers.

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How did it all happened?

• Worked for CERN
• Developed Enquire
• Information Menagment System for scientists

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I just had to take the hypertext idea and
connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and ta-da!
the World Wide Web

• Information Menagment A Proposal
• HTTP, HTTPD - first web server

NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 and
worlds first web server, web browser and web
editor.
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WWW

• Created first web browser WorldWideWeb and
  WYSIWYG editor
• First website - 1991

WorldWideWeb - HyperMedia Browser/Editor - 1991
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W3C

• WorldWideWeb Consortium
• Public Domain
• If I had tried to demand fees ... there would
  be no World Wide Web
• there would be lots of small webs.

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Present

• Currently chair of CSD at the University of
  Southampton
• Web 2.0 - Semantic Web
• Awards
• Sir Timothy Berners-Lee
• Millennium Technology Prize from Finnish
  Government

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• Questions?