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This Week's Homework (1/27/2011 - Week 4)
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Biography
Credited as inventing the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners Lee has devoted his career to the development and guidance of the World Wide Web.
This journey began for Tim at CERN where he found himself frustrated with the era’s methods of storing and sharing information. To remedy this problem Tim wrote a program called Enquire, which helped him access the desired information.
Tim’s work with Enquire indelibly left an impression on him, which he revisited in 1989 when he proposed his idea of a web of information to CERN. By 1991 Tim had written the programing language Hypertext Transfer Protocol and launched the worlds very first website, http://info.cern.ch/.
Now with the World Wide Web's seed planted, Tim turned to the Internet community where his vision of a World Wide Web would come to fruition. As the World Wide Web grew, Tim was instrumental in shepherding it to where it is today by creating the World Wide Web Consortium (AKA W3C) in 1994. The W3C continues to be the major force driving the direction of the Web.
Today Tim spends his time fighting to for Net Neutrality in an increasingly intense battle over its meaning.
To find out more information on Tim Berners Lee visit Tim's Wikipedia page at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee.
or hear it from Tim himself through the video below.
If your still not satisfied and want to learn more find everything there is to know about Tim at:
http://www.google.com/search?en&q=tim+berners-lee