www - Tim Berners-Lee

www - Tim Berners-Lee

  12:54 PM    mayuravaani

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• Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a paradigm shift by inventing world wide web, the URL naming scheme, HTTP protocol, and the HTML markup language.
• At that time, he was working at CERN the Europian Organization Nuclear Research center which is in Geneva.
  
• He had his undergraduate degree in physics from The Queen's College, Oxford, but had no formal training as a computer scientist, although he had bulit his own computer and written software, and it was that combination of skills CERN needed.
• There were perhaps 10,000 people working for CERN at the time, but only 3,000 actual campus; others were coming and going there and other institutions.
• Berners-Lee thought it would be useful to have an online collabarative space where people could share ideas, and where people who came along later could follow the decision-making process by clicking through the links.
• However, just bringing co-workers together did not seem like enough.
• By 1989, the internet was beginning to become generally connected.
• After that Tim Berners-Lee beleived the web should allow anybody anywhere to create information and link to it.
• He expose his thought to his Boss Mike Sandall. His boss said him to do that as a side project.
• Because he couldn't justify that it the project has a direct relation to CERN's goals. Instead, he decided it could be a good way of testing the potential of the NeXT machine which belongs to Apple. designed by Steve Jobs.
• There were many types of computer systems existence at that time such as documentation system, help system, note-taking systems, paper publishing systems. But each tended to focus only one type of information.
• He wanted to break down the separation between those systems.
• He thought that the web should be universal and it should be independent of programming language, type of computer and language or culture of the user.
• His one requirement was anybody in the world label everything they had with what he originally called a UDI (Universal Document Identifier). Now it is known as URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
• By 1994, web had progressed from small research project to global phenomenon. The web had been adopted by  IBM (International Business Machines)and Netscape became as  the first browser company. 
• After that he moved to Computer Science Department of MIT (Massachusetts of Information Technology) and he founded World Wide Web Consortium that is an international group that develops standards for web.
• In 2016, he became as a professor in Computer Science Department at Oxford University.
• He received many awards and honors. 
• He received 2016 Turing Award in June with one million dollars of the financial support provided by Google.
• He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2004.
• He received Order of Merit award and Royal medal.
• In 2008, He founded World Wide Web Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting access to the web for all.