Posted
on June 8, 2016
Did
today's famous birthday invent the internet?
Not
quite. The internet is a network of networks....It contains millions
of private and public computers in academic, business, and
governmental institutions as well as in people's homes.
What
Tim Berners-Lee invented is the World Wide Web!
I
already wrote about the World Wide Web in one of last year's posts –
check it out for more on the difference between the internet and the
“www” – but now I want to look at Lee's life and ask how he
ended up creating something so important to the whole world!
Berners-Lee
was born on this date in 1955 in London, England. His parents worked
on the first commercially-built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1.
As
a kid, Berners-Lee loved trains and all things railroad. He learned
about electronics from tinkering with model railways. Years later, he
decided to study physics at university.
When
he graduated from university with a first-class degree in physics,
Berners-Lee stared to work as an engineer for a telecommunications
company. He worked on creating software for particular applications.
While working as an independent contractor to CERN, he came up with
the idea of using hypertext to make sharing and updating information
easier. He built a prototype that could be used among the CERN
scientists. In some ways, this prototype didn't work all that well;
Berners-Lee came up with some ways to vastly improve the system.
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Here is Berners-Lee talking about his next big innovation!
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