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A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing, while at CERN, (European Particle Physics Laboratory), in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.

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As We May Think http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm Historical document laying out the ideas of the internet, long before it became a reality. "Urges that men of science should ... turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge." Vannevar Bush : 1945

Inventor of the Web

Blog of Tim Berners-Lee http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/blog/4 The man who invented the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee : 2008

Internet Pioneers - Tim Berners-Lee http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html "It seems strange to think that [the internet] has only been around for a few years. [Its use] became widespread in the mid 1990s, but its beginnings can actually be traced back to 1980 when Tim Berners-Lee ... landed a temporary contract job as a software consultant at CERN ... " Tim Berners-Lee : 2010

Tim Berners-Lee at W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ His official site at W3C Tim Berners-Lee : 2010

Tim Berners-Lee at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee Bio and information Wikipedia : 2010

The Tech

Prefix or Posthack http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prefix-or-posthack/ Discussion of "vendor prefixes—the -*- properties like -moz-border-radius, -webkit-animation, and so on. ... prefixes should become a central part of the CSS standardization process." Eric Meyer - A List Apart : June 2010

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