III · The web

Tim Berners-Lee

1955–

CERN · W3C · Inrupt · creator of the World Wide Web

Gave us

HTTP. HTML. URIs. The first browser (WorldWideWeb on a NeXTSTEP machine). The Web itself.

The story

A 1989 proposal at CERN, written on a NeXT cube under his desk. Refused to patent the Web. His father Conway Berners-Lee independently invented the binary search tree in 1960.

"The web is for everyone."

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Across the field

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