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...p a fellowship at CERN, to work on distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition and system control. In 1989, he proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. This work was started in October 1990, and the programme “World Wide Web” first became available within CERN in December, and on the Internet at large in the summer of 1991.
Through 1991 and 1993, Tim continued working on the design of the Web, co-ordinating feedback from users across the Internet. His initial specifications of URL’s, HTTP and HTML were refined and discussed in larger circles as the Web technology spread.
In 1994, Tim joined the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as Director of the W3 Consortium which co-ordinates W3 development world-wide, with teams at MIT and at INRIA in France. The consortium goal is to realise the full potential of the web, ensuring its stability through the rapid evolution and revolutionary transformations of its usage.
Tim was knighted by H.M. the Queen in 2004.
He is the author of "Weaving the Web", on the the past present and future of the Web.
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- The Web: Directions and Impact
- Global Electronic Commerce
- History of the World Wide Web
- The Future of the Internet
- Building Industries on the Web
- Creativity in Cyberspace
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