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Analysis Of Berners Lee 's ' The Slender, 40 Year Old British Scientist

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Berners-Lee is the creator of the World Wide Web, the user-friendly, graphics-based interface for navigating around the Internet. Millions around the globe visit the Web daily, and in a way, it has evolved into its own life form. Information on nearly any subject can be retrieved, vast bookstores quickly perused, and speeches of international leaders played back. Its potential for use (and abuse) is staggering, but it was Berners-Lee, the son of two computer scientists, and his simple hypertext program that made it all possible. "The slender, 40-year-old British scientist is as thoughtful and obscure as the Web is splashy and pervasive," wrote James Daly in Forbes ASAP in 1996.Berners-Lee 's parents met while working on the Ferranti Mark I, the first computer to be sold commercially (its predecessors had all been developed privately, or for military use). He grew up in London in an intellectual atmosphere where "we discussed imaginary numbers over breakfast," Berners-Lee recalled in the Forbes ASAP interview. As a tot he made his own make-believe computers out of cardboard boxes. He attended the Emanuel School in London, and upon entering Queen 's College at Oxford in 1973 could not choose between mathematics and engineering; he chose physics as a compromise. There he constructed his own computer out of various scrounged parts and a television set.After graduating with an honors degree in 1976, Berners-Lee worked for a few high-tech firms in England. From 1976 to 1978 he

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