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Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is widely known as the creator of the World Wide Web (WWW). Expanding upon work he completed at CERN (European Particles Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland), Berners-Lee proposed and advanced a global informational exchange network. Berner-Lee’s proposed network ultimately resulted in the groundbreaking formation of the WWW, which was subsequently placed on the Internet in 1991. Berners-Lee continues to be a leader in the field through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which he founded and directs. A complete biography of Berners-Lee can found at W3C's webpage.
Tim Berners-Lee speaks to PBS on the 20th anniversay of the World Wide Web, looking back and to the future. What's next?