tim berners-lee
     
         the man who invented the world-wide web while
        working at the center for european particle research cern.
        now director of the world-wide web consortium.
     
        tim berners-lee graduated from the queen's college at oxford
        university, england, 1976.  whilst there he built his first
        computer with a soldering iron, ttl gates, an m6800
        processor and an old television.
     
        he then went on to work for plessey telecommunications, and
        d.g. nash ltd where he wrote software for intelligent
        printers and a multi-tasking operating system, before
        joining cern, where he designed a program called 'enquire',
        which was never published, but formed the conceptual basis for
        today's world-wide web.
     
        in 1984, he took up a fellowship at cern, and in 1989, he
        wrote the first world-wide web server, "httpd", and the
        first client, "worldwideweb" a hypertext browser/editor
        which ran under nextstep.  the program "worldwideweb" was
        first made available within cern in december, and on the
        internet as a whole in the summer of 1991.
     
        in 1994, tim joined the laboratory for computer science
        lcs at the massachusetts institute of technology mit.
        in 1999, he became the first holder of the 3com founders
        chair.  he is also the author of "weaving the web", on the
        past present and future of the web.
     
        in 2001, tim was made a fellow of the royal society.
     
        tim is married to nancy carlson. they have two children, born
        1991 and 1994.
     
        http://www.w3.org/people/berners-lee/longer.html.
     
        2001-06-17
     
     
see also:
world-wide web world-wide web consortium ttl m6800 plessey telecommunications multi-tasking 
operating system server httpd hypertext nextstep 
internet laboratory for computer science massachusetts institute of technology 3com lt;http://www.w3.org/people/berners-lee/longer.htmlgt;