Tim Berners-Lee

The CERN physicist who invented the web — URLs, HTTP and HTML — and gave it away without patent.

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born 1955

Core Principles & Analysis

• He proposed the web in 1989 and shipped the first browser and server by Christmas 1990.
• CERN released the web's protocols royalty-free in 1993, the decision that made it universal.
• He directs the W3C and now works on Solid, a project to give users their own data.