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Tim Berners Lee

Tim Berners Lee. By Jack Neus. What did he do?. He invented the World Wide Web, which linked hypertext with TCP and DNS. He invented W3 while working in CERN, a physics lab in Switzerland. Hypertext is the idea of jumping from one document to another. A web page is a document too.

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Tim Berners Lee

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  1. Tim Berners Lee By Jack Neus

  2. What did he do? • He invented the World Wide Web, which linked hypertext with TCP and DNS. • He invented W3 while working in CERN, a physics lab in Switzerland. • Hypertext is the idea of jumping from one document to another. A web page is a document too. • TCP and DNS were the early versions of WWW. That was what was used to create the first email.

  3. Who was he? • Tim Berners Lee was born on June 8, 1955. • Tim Berners Lee graduated from Oxford University. • Tim Berners Lee was 35 in 1989, when he first created the world wide web. • Tim Berners Lee lives in London, England. • Tim Berners Lee is now the president of W3C.

  4. Company Statistics • Tim Berners Lee founded W3C, otherwise known as the WWW Consortium. • The company is private. You cannot buy shares of it. • The company was founded in 1994. • The business was a first of its kind, finally introducing things like web pages.

  5. Why so much success? • Tim Berners Lee invented WWW, which allowed web pages to work. Before that, there was still email, but it was just an application. There was no hundred million different pages, there was just a white square where you typed your text and then sent it.

  6. Why so much success? • Almost every business has benefited from W3, because now they can make web sites with a web of pages where consumers can learn about their product. • Many other computer companies have been inspired by W3. This is where Microsoft came from. They realized what HTML could do, and they did A LOT with it.

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