World's First Web Site

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (born in London, England, June 8, 1955) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and the chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium, which regulates development.

In 1980, when he was an independent contractor at CERN, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext (hypertext) to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. With the help of Robert Cailliau him a prototype system named Enquire.

After leaving CERN to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems Ltd, he returned in 1984 as a research fellow. He used similar ideas he had used on Enquire to create the World Wide Web, where he designed and built the first browser (named WorldWideWeb and developed on NeXTSTEP) and the first Web server called httpd.

The first website created Berners-Lee (and therefore it is also the first website) address at http://info.cern.ch/ (already filed) and put online for the first time on August 6, 1991.

In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Until now, Berners-Lee still remains humble and does not want to get popular status. Many still do not know the power of this man's work, the World Wide Web.

One of the greatest contributions in advancing the World Wide Web is not to patent it so that they can be used freely.

On July 16, 2004 he was given the title of honorary KBE by Queen Elizabeth II in honor of his services.