Tim Berners Lee {1955} knows a lot about changing the world . There was a time when his web page were the only pages on the world wide web .Born to parents who had met while developing one of the earliest computers, Berners Lee studied for a physics degree from Queen College ,Oxford, then headed straight for the Berners industry.By 1989 he was working in Geneva, Switzerland ,at CERN,the European particle physics laboratory. CERN was interested in finding a way by which groups of researchers could share information more easily .Berners Lee saw the potential for marrying hypertext a technique for liking documents together using click words --with the internet which was already heavly used by CERN working with colleague Robert Cailliau ,he propsed a system he called the world wide web .
The first web server was up and runing by the end of 1990 .At the time ,Berners Lees "NeXT" computer did not have a color display ,and the earliest web pages were simple black and white text . Now less than twenty years latter , there are more than a hundred million websites on the world wide web . The web certainly continues to help people in their physics ,research ,but it also help them to do their shoping,listen to music read their morning newspapers and get back in touch with old friends.
Berners Lee who without doubt picked the right piece of the world to change ,is now Sir Timothy Berners Lee , Director of the world wide web Consortium , Senior Researcher at the Massachusetts institute of Technology {MIT] and professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
The significance of his work in shaping the the early twenty first century is beyond calculation .
The first web server was up and runing by the end of 1990 .At the time ,Berners Lees "NeXT" computer did not have a color display ,and the earliest web pages were simple black and white text . Now less than twenty years latter , there are more than a hundred million websites on the world wide web . The web certainly continues to help people in their physics ,research ,but it also help them to do their shoping,listen to music read their morning newspapers and get back in touch with old friends.
Berners Lee who without doubt picked the right piece of the world to change ,is now Sir Timothy Berners Lee , Director of the world wide web Consortium , Senior Researcher at the Massachusetts institute of Technology {MIT] and professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
The significance of his work in shaping the the early twenty first century is beyond calculation .
