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Tim Berners-Lee

Inventor of the World Wide Web

Also known as Timothy John Berners-Lee · TimBL · Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989 and put it in the public domain.

HTML, URLs, and HTTP are his. He has spent the years since fighting to keep the web a commons.

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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989 and put it in the public domain. HTML, URLs, and HTTP are his. He has spent the years since fighting to keep the web a commons.
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