Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, KBE, FRS (TimBL or TBL) (born June 8, 1955) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.

Background and early career

Berners-Lee was born in London, England, the son of Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods. His parents, both mathematicians, were employed together on the team that built the Manchester Mark I, one of the earliest computers. Berners-Lee attended Emanuel School in Wandsworth. He is an alumnus of Queen's College, Oxford University, where he built a computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. Whilst at Oxford he was caught hacking with a friend and was subsequently banned from using the university computer.

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London - England - Manchester Mark I - Emanuel School - Wandsworth - Alumnus - Queen's College - Oxford University - Computer - Soldering iron - TTL - Gates - M6800 - Television - Hacking

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He worked at Plessey Telecommunications Limited in 1976 as a programmer, and in 1978 he worked at D.G. Nash Limited where he worked on typesetting software and an operating system.

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Plessey Telecommunications Limited - 1976 - 1978 - D.G. Nash Limited

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In 2001 he became a patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust having previously lived in Colehill in Wimborne, East Dorset, UK.

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2001 - East Dorset - Colehill - Wimborne - UK

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He currently lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area with his wife and two children.

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