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    Tim Berners-Lee In this day and age you can find almost anything online. You can access the web from your laptop, your phone, even your game consoles and televisions. We were born in a time where the web was always there for our convenience, but how many of us actually know where it all started? The biggest tool in our society was created in 1989 by the man known as Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 8th 1955 and graduated from the Queen’s College at Oxford University in 1976.

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    Tim Berners Lee Biography

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    “To achieve the goals of sustainable development, critical data must be open and available for reuse by anyone, anywhere, anytime” (“World Wide”). This phrase was delivered by the computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee. He attended Oxford University where he built his first real computer (Gaines). After that, he continued and currently pursues his interest in technology.     Growing up, he wanted to be just like his parents who both worked on the first version of the computer. His upbringing was not

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    242 Tim Berners-Lee As I write this paper, I notice how my life is entirely dependent on the internet. I am writing this paper on Google Docs, on a chromebook, while I stream music online, check facebook every ten minutes, and even pay my bills online. Internet has taken the world by storm. The internet, which celebrated its 25th century in 2014, started as an idea in 1961. However, the internet as we know it, started with the development of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee

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    Tim Berners-Lee: A Hero

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    Tim Berners-Lee has contributed the most to the advancement of internet technology. Tim Berners-Lee is a hero because he developed software that made the internet easier to access and navigate, with this it also improved worldwide communication, and he refused the money that came with his inventions. Tim Berners-Lee developed the protocol that unleashed the power of the internet. Berners-Lee developed three softwares, “Berners-Lee developed software containing processing for encoding documents

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    cannot recall a life without the web. The web is young because recently it had its 25th anniversary. 25 years ago ,Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau changed the world forever. According to boutell.com, “ In 1989, while working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), both men made proposals for hypertext systems…And in late 1990 and early 1991, Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser.” These men started the technology phenomena, but as time progressed, society started to

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    curtain, Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955 in London, United Kingdom. He grew up under the British nationality making toy computers out of cardboard and other materials. This was most likely because both of his parents helped design the first commercially available computer, Mark 1. Lee remembers how his parents were more likely to talk about mathematics than gossip about others around the block at the dinner table. These factors helped influence Tim Berners-Lee to go into

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    Sir Tim Berners-Lee was born June 8th, 1955 in London, England and was one of the four children to Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee is known and credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Both of Tim Berners-Lee’s “parents worked on the first commercially-built computer” the Ferranti Mark I, which helped influence him into studying mathematics and science growing up as a child (Tim Berners-Lee Biography, n.d.). Tim attended Sheen Mount Primary School and then went on to

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    Tim Berners-Lee

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    Tim Berners-Lee made the World Wide Web to let people be able to share documents with each other. Tim Berners-Lee had to develop the software on his own time while attending college and having a job. Tim Berners-Lee got kicked out of one of his colleagues for trying to hack into the colleges website just for the fun of it. Its always the trouble makers that end up making some of the most important things in our lives. From Steve Jobs never finishing college up to where he ended up making every Apple

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    Tim Berners-Lee is a famous computer scientist from England who is famous for being known as the inventor of the Web. During his many presentations, he points out numerous key ideas based on how he developed the web and the main components behind operating the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee begins his presentation by discussing how he began in the world of technology by working as a software engineer working with data systems during this time. He mentions how frustrating and incompatible it was to simply

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    a high respect or esteem”. My definition of honor is someone who has done something to earn respect in a community. Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, was born on June 8, 1955 and is known for revolutionizing at the basic level world wide communications, but on a greater whole civilization as we know it. Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. In 1989, while Lee was working at CERN(A european organization for nuclear research) he proposed the idea of an information distribution system

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