Sir Timothy Berners Lee

Here's a time line of Sir Timothy Berners Lee's life:

• 1914 - Born 8 june 1955 in London, England. The eldest of the four children of Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee; his brother Mike is a professor of ecology and climate change management. His parents were computer scientists who worked on the first commercially built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1.
• 1978 - He joined D. G. Nash in Ferndown, Dorset, where he helped create typesetting software for printers.
• 1980 - June to Dicember, Berners-Lee worked as an independent contractor at CERN.
• 1989 - Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989, then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.
• 2004 - Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work.
• 2016 - He received the 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale".

"Creating the web was really an act of desperation, because the situation without it was very difficult when I was working at CERN later. Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the Internet, multifont text objects, had all been designed already. I just had to put them together. It was a step of generalising, going to a higher level of abstraction, thinking about all the documentation systems out there as being possibly part of a larger imaginary documentation system."