Tim Berners-Lee: The Father of The Web Who Linked The Globe
Tim Berners-Lee: The Father of The Web Who Linked The Globe What would life be like if we couldn’t access online information and content with the click of a button? No one can remember such a recent time, all thanks to the incredible innovations of Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee was the visionary and revolutionary scientist who is credited with revolutionizing communication and commerce as we know it today. Born on June 8, 1955 in London, England, Berners-Lee attended competent schools including The Queen's College, Oxford and attended the main library of Oxford every day when he was 7 or 8-years-old. It is here that he read Encyclopedia Britannica continuously and where he developed his lifelong obsession with technology. It is also highly likely that his world-altering curiosity and interests can be attributed to his parents. His father, a mathematics professor and his mother, a computer scientist--employed in the first commercial program at the University of Manchester-likely gav...