born 1955
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He proposed and developed the first web browser and web server while working at CERN in the late 1980s and early 1990s, fundamentally changing how information is shared and accessed on the internet. Berners-Lee is also a strong advocate for web standards and open data, founding the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to promote these principles.