The man behind the Web

"I made the Web just because I needed it" --Berners-Lee

Ever thought about what the world would be like without the World Wide Web? Well if Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee hadn't been around, maybe we would still all be sending snail mail!

Tim Berners-Lee is credited for being the inventor of the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for what would change our world forever, in March 1989. He was eventually successful on December 25, 1990, to implement the very first communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet. Talk about a nice Christmas present!

Berners-Lee is now the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (see blog post 2) and the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation launched in 2009 to fund and coordinate ways to further develop the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.

For his valuable contribution to the way our world works today, Berners-Lee has been the recipient of many prestigious awards and honours such as The Order of Merit, The Webby Award and the rank of Knight Commander by Queen Elizabeth II.