Tim Berners-Lee

Happy Birthday Tim Berners-Lee! The inventor of the World Wide Web turns 61 years old today. Berners-Lee was exposed to computers early, as his parents worked on the first commercially available computer, the Ferranti Mark I. In 1989, while working at CERN, Berners-Lee invented the Web. The idea was to allow people to exchange information over the internet without having to email each other. He set up the world’s first website, complete with hypertext to access other pages. He wrote software for a Web server and browser. CERN released the World Wide Web software into the public domain on April 30, 1993. Berners-Lee is director of the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium and founding director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which seeks to ensure access for people around the world. (Image credit: Paul Clarke, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Date in History: 8 June 1955