Tim Berners Lee_The Inventor Of WWW

An Ordinary Life, An Amazing Idea

Tim Berners-Lee looks very ordinary. He’s about fifty years old and has brown hair. He was born in England but now lives in Massachusetts in the USA. But in 1989 Tim had a very important idea. He invented th world wide web (www).

Tim went to school in London. Both his parents worked with computers so it isn’t surprising that he loved computers from an early age. When he was eighteen, he left school and went to Oxford University where he studied physics.

At Oxford, he became more and more interested in computers, and he made his first computer from an old television. He graduated in 1976 and got a job with a computer company in Dorset, England. In 1989, he went to work in Switzerland where he first had the idea of an international information  network linked by computer. HE decided to call it the world wide web, and he also decided to make his ideas free to everyone, that is why today we do not to pay to use the Internet.

In 1994 he went to live in the United States where he now works. In 1995 he wrote an article, in the New York Times, he said, “The web is a universe of information and it is for everyone.” Today his idea of a web, where people from all over the world can exchange information, is real.