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๐งโ๐ป Pioneers & Inventors
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web; created HTTP, HTML and the URL system in 1989
England ๐ฌ๐ง 1989 Pioneers & Inventors
Key Facts
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Invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN; wrote the first web browser and web server in 1990
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Created HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), HTML and the URL addressing system
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Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (2004); founded W3C to develop web standards; received the Turing Award (2016)
๐ก Did you know? Berners-Lee did not patent the web; he gave it to the world for free โ one of the most impactful decisions in history
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๐ฌ๐ง England
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