working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN).
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
M6800processor and an old television.
D.G. Nash Ltd (where he wrote software for intelligent
joining CERN, where he designed a program called 'Enquire',
which was never published, but formed the conceptual basis for
In 1984, he took up a fellowship at CERN, and in 1989, he
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 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.
(2001-06-17)