Tim Berners-Lee Biography

BR.
SAMUEL ABRAHAM LÓPEZ LÓPEZ
TIM BERNERS-LEE
BIOGRAPHY
AND
H O W H E C R E AT E D
WORLD WIDE WEB
TIM BERNERS-
Who is he? LEE
Tim berners-lee, in full sir tim berners-lee, (born

june 8, 1955, he is a british computer scientist,
generally acredited as the inventor of the world
wide web, in 2004 he was awarded a
knighthood by queen elizabeth ii of the united
kingdom and the inaugural milennium
technology prize ($ 1 million) by the finish
technology award foundation.
T H E E A R LY
LIFE OF TIM
BERNERS-LEE
Growing up, Sir Tim was interested in
trains and had a model railway in his
T Í T U L O D E L A P R E S E N TA C IÓ N
bedroom.
He recalls:
“I made some electronic gadgets to control

the trains. Then i ended up getting more
interested in electronic tan trains. Later on,
when i was in college i made a computer
out of an old televisión set”
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W H AT H A P P E N E D
A F T E R T H AT ?
After graduating from Oxford University Berners-Lee
became a software engineer at CERN, the large particles
physics laboratory near Geneva,Switzerland
Scientists come from all over the world to use its

accelerators,but Sir Tim noticed that they were having
difficulty sharing information.
Tim thought he saw a way to solve this problem-one that

he could see could also have much broader applications.
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MEANWHILE…..
In March 1989 Tim Laid out his visión for what would
become the web in a document called “Information
Management a proposal”. Believe or not, Tim’s Initial
Proporsal was not immediately acepted.
The web was never an oficial CERN Project but his boss
Mike Sendall Managed to give Tim time to work on it in
september 1990.
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BY OCTOBER OF 1990 TIM HAD WRITTEN THE THREE
FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES THAT REMAIN THE
F O U N DAT I O N O F TO DAYS W E B
HTML URL HTTP
Hypertext markup Uniform Resource Hypertext transfer
language. identifier. protocol.
The markup (formatting) A kind of adress, that is Allows for the retrieval of
languague for the web unique and used to linked resources from
identify to each resource across the web.
on the web.Its also
commonly called a URL
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IN ADDITION
Tim also wrote the first web page
editor/browser (Worldwideweb.app) and the
first web server (httpd) . By the end of 1990, the
first web page was served on the open internet,
and 1991 people outside of CERN were invited
to join this new web community.
As the web began to grow, he realized that its

true potential would only be unleashed if
anyone,anywhere could use it without paying a
fee or having to ask to permission
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T HE E A R LY W E B
COMMUNITY PRODUCED
SOME REVOLUTIONARY No permission is needed from a central authority
IDEAS THAT ARE NOW Desentralization To post anything on the web, there´s no central
Controlling node, ando so no single point of
S P R E A D I N G FA R failure
BEYOND THE
TECHNOLOGY SECTOR:
If i pay to connect to the internet with a certain
Non - Discrimitation Quality of service, and you pay to connect with
That or a greater quality of service, then we can both
communicate at the same level.
Intead of code being written and controlled by
Bottom - Up A small group of experts, it was developed in full
View of everyone, encouraging maximun
Participation and experimentation.
For anyone to be able to publish anyting on the

Web, all the computers involved have to speak
Universality
the same language to each other, no matter what
Different hardware people are using, where they
Live, or what cultural or political beliefs the have.
For universal standards to work, everyone had to

Consensus Agree to use them.Tim and others achieved this
Consensus by giving everyone a say in a creating
The standards.
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CONCLUSION
Basically, the emergence of the internet had a
profound impact on the world we know today,
enabling us to have easy access to a vast
amount of almost limitless information.It also
ushered in new professions, university
majors,unprecedented technological
advancements, and developments
political,economic, and social factors, making
our lives easier and also connecting us with
those who are part of our lives.
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BEING
AT T E N T I V E !
!THANKS FOR
10 T Í T U L O D E L A P R E S E N TA C IÓ N

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SAMUEL ABRAHAM LÓPEZ LÓPEZ

Tim berners-lee, in full sir tim berners-lee, (born

“I made some electronic gadgets to control

Scientists come from all over the world to use its

Tim thought he saw a way to solve this problem-one that

HTML URL HTTP

As the web began to grow, he realized that its

For anyone to be able to publish anyting on the

For universal standards to work, everyone had to

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