Tim Berners-Lee

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tim Berners-Lee
Occupation	Computer
Date Of Birth	Jun 8, 1955(1955-06-08)
Age	69
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Tim Berners-Lee Biography

Tim Berners-Lee is one of the most popular and richest Computer who was born on June 8, 1955 in London, England, United Kingdom.

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989, then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet in mid-November.

After graduation, Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at the telecommunications company Plessey in Poole, Dorset. In 1978, he joined D. G. Nash in Ferndown, Dorset, where he helped create type-setting software for printers.

Tim Berners-Lee Net Worth

Tim Berners-Lee is one of the richest Computer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim Berners-Lee 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Berners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955 in London, England, the eldest of the four children of Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee; his brother Mike is an expert on greenhouse gases. His parents were computer scientists who worked on the first commercially built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1. He attended Sheen Mount Primary School, and then went on to attend south west London’s Emanuel School from 1969 to 1973, at the time a direct grant grammar school, which became an independent school in 1975. A keen trainspotter as a child, he learnt about electronics from tinkering with a model railway. He studied at The Queen’s College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, where he received a first- class bachelor of arts degree in physics. While at university, Berners-Lee made a computer out of an old television set, which he bought from a repair shop.

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Who is Tim Berners-Lee Dating?

According to our records, Tim Berners-Lee married to Rosemary Leith , Nancy Carlson. As of December 1, 2023, Tim Berners-Lee’s is not dating anyone.

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Berners-Lee married Nancy Carlson in 1990, an American computer programmer. She was also working in Switzerland at the World Health Organization. They had two children and divorced in 2011. In 2014, he married Rosemary Leith at the Chapel Royal, St. James’s Palace in London. Leith is a Canadian internet and banking entrepreneur and a founding director of Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation. The couple also collaborate on venture capital to support artificial intelligence companies.

Facts & Trivia

Tim Ranked on the list of most popular Computer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tim Berners-Lee celebrates birthday on June 8 of every year.

info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first-ever website and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The first webpage address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which centred on information regarding the WWW project. Visitors could learn more about hypertext, technical details for creating their own webpage, and even an explanation on how to search the Web for information. There are no screenshots of this original page and, in any case, changes were made daily to the information available on the page as the WWW project developed. You may find a later copy (1992) on the World Wide Web Consortium website.

How did Tim Berners-Lee invent the internet?

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as web technology spread.

What does Tim Bernes Lee do now?

He is a founder and president of the Open Data Institute and is currently an advisor at social network MeWe. In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work.

Is Tim Berners-Lee Rich?

Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee is a British engineer and computer scientist who has a net worth of $10 million. Berners-Lee is best known for inventing the World Wide Web protocol in 1989. He is currently a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford.

What did Tim Berner Lee invent?

Inventions

Who truly invented the Internet?

Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet communication protocols we use today and the system referred to as the Internet.