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Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Born 8 June 1955 · Q80
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(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm # Web37
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(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class at Tulane University. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.
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(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class @tulaneu.bsky.social. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.
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Tonight marks the final stop on the Australian book tour at Sydney Opera House 🌏 🙏 to everyone joining the conversation and movement to reclaim the web for everyone. See you tonight Sydney 🇦🇺 # thisisforeveryone https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/jan/29/internet-inventor-tim-berners-lee-interview-battle-soul-web
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“(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm # Web37”
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“(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class at Tulane University. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.”
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“(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class @tulaneu.bsky.social. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.”
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“Tonight marks the final stop on the Australian book tour @sydneyoperahouse.bsky.social 🌏 🙏 to everyone joining the conversation and movement to reclaim the web for everyone. See you tonight Sydney 🇦🇺 #thisisforeveryone www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
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“Tonight marks the final stop on the Australian book tour at Sydney Opera House 🌏 🙏 to everyone joining the conversation and movement to reclaim the web for everyone. See you tonight Sydney 🇦🇺 # thisisforeveryone https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/jan/29/internet-inventor-tim-berners-lee-interview-battle-soul-web”
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“🙏 @financialtimes.com & @johnthornhill.bsky.social for making 'This Is For Everyone' a Financial Times Best books of the year 📘 www.ft.com/content/af55...”
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“🙏 @ financialtimes for making 'This Is For Everyone' a Financial Times Best books of the year 📘 https://www. ft.com/content/af555e42-198c-4 5aa-adb8-3f21b1cb83c0”
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MediaPost: Tim Berners-Lee Warns AI May Make Web's Ad Model 'Fall Apart'
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“A special evening being interviewed by my old friend Juan Enriquez in Boston @ The Brattle Theatre... and no, that's not Juan in the photo 👀 but Rosemary Leith who could do the interview with ease after sitting through every book tour event 🙏”
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“A special evening being interviewed by my old friend Juan Enriquez in Boston @brattletheatre.bsky.social... and no, that's not Juan in the photo 👀 but Rosemary Leith who could do the interview with ease after sitting through every book tour event 🙏”
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“Started this week @92ndstreety.bsky.social in conversation with @camillefrancois.bsky.social . 🙏 to everyone for making it a full house.”
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“Started this week @ 92ndstreety in conversation with Camille Francois. 🙏 to everyone for making it a full house.”
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“A packed Keplers in Menlo Park, an amazing audience and a stage shared with Thomas Friedman made for a great atmosphere last night. Huge thanks to Tom for the questions covering the web's history, it's future and everything in between 🌐”
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“A packed Keplers in Menlo Park, an amazing audience and a stage shared with @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social made for a great atmosphere last night. Huge thanks to Tom for the questions covering the web's history, it's future and everything in between 🌐”
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“Thank you to everyone reading my new memoir - you’ve made it an instant Sunday Times bestseller 🗞️ This Is for Everyone is available now from http:// thisisforeveryone.timbl.com”
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“Thank you to everyone reading my new memoir - you’ve made it an instant Sunday Times bestseller 🗞️ This Is for Everyone is available now from thisisforeveryone.timbl.com @thetimes.com”
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““The free, open access communications paradigm we have did not arrive like magic. It was the product of a fair amount of political wrangling” - that's why we must continue our fight for the web. 🙏 @washingtonpost.com for reviewing 'This Is for Everyone' www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...”
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““The free, open access communications paradigm we have did not arrive like magic. It was the product of a fair amount of political wrangling” - that's why we must continue our fight for the web. 🙏 @ WashPost for reviewing 'This Is for Everyone' https://www. washingtonpost.com/books/2025/ 09/12/this-is-everyone-world-wide-web-tim-berners-lee-review/”
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“"The internet needs compassion - and I have a solution." 🙏 to @ EveningStandard for this extract from my new memoir 'This Is for Everyone' 📖 https://www. standard.co.uk/comment/interne t-social-media-world-wide-web-tim-berners-lee-b1247551.html”
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“"The internet needs compassion - and I have a solution." 🙏 to @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy for this extract from my new memoir 'This Is for Everyone' 📖 www.standard.co.uk/comment/inte...”
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“On Tuesday I launched my memoir 'This Is for Everyone' at @cadoganhall.bsky.social Available now @ thisisforeveryone.timbl.com & bookshops everywhere. Special thanks to Tania Bryer @panmacmillan.bsky.social @intelligence2.bsky.social”
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In 2025, Berners-Lee published a memoir, This Is for Everyone, with ghostwriter Stephen Witt.
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In November 2025, Berners-Lee was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
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Used the phrase as the title for his book on the history of the Internet, This Is for Everyone
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Berners-Lee published a memoir, This Is for Everyone, with ghostwriter Stephen Witt
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Bloomberg L.P.: Tim Berners-Lee Wants the Internet Back
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TechSpot: Tim Berners-Lee's Web Foundation shuts down, mission accomplished after 15 years
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NDTV: Tim Berners-Lee
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TechSpot: Tim Berners-Lee shares his predictions on the 35th anniversary of the World Wide Web
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The web's source code was auctioned by Sotheby's in London during 23–30 June 2021, as a non-fungible token (NFT) by Berners-Lee.
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Awarded Obedience Award (2017).
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Awarded Axel Springer Award (2017).
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Awarded Turing Award (2016).
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Joined the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University as a professorial research fellow and as a fellow of Christ Church, one of the Oxford colleges
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The invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one, with the entry stating: "The fastest growing communications medium of all time, the Internet has changed the shape of modern life forever
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Awarded Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class (2015).
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Awarded OII Lifetime Achievement Award (2014).
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Awarded Worthy of the City presented by City of London (2014).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Yale University (2014).
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Married Rosemary Leith at the Chapel Royal, St
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Awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2013).
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Was awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
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And Berners-Lee is leading the coalition of public and private organisations that includes Google, Facebook, Intel and Microsoft
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Awarded Internet Hall of Fame (2012).
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Berners-Lee was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2011).
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Was named a member of the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation
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They had two children and divorced in 2011.
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Won UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal (2010).
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“The changes signal a wider cultural change in government based on an assumption that information should be in the public domain unless there is a good reason not to—not the other way around.”
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Was elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Open University of Catalonia (2008).
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Awarded Order of Merit (2007).
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Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (2007).
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Won Lovelace Medal (2006).
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Awarded Quadriga (2005).
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Awarded Millennium Technology Prize (2004).
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Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2004).
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Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work
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Accepted a chair in computer science at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire, to work on the Semantic Web
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And the National Academy of Engineering in 2007
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Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2003).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2002).
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Awarded Marconi Prize (2002).
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Won Albert Medal (2002).
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Awarded Japan Prize (2001).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2001).
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Berners-Lee became a patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust, having previously lived in Colehill in Wimborne, East Dorset
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Won Royal Medal (2000).
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Awarded EFF Award (2000).
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Awarded Paul Evan Peters Award (2000).
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Awarded Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award (1998).
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Awarded Eduard-Rhein Technology Award (1998).
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Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1998).
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Awarded W. Wallace McDowell Award (1996).
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Won Mountbatten Medal (1996).
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Awarded ACM Software System Award for World Wide Web (1995).
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Awarded Prix Ars Electronica (1995).
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“The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.”
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“What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.”
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“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.”
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“Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.”
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Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Berners-Lee married Nancy Carlson, an American computer programmer
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In 1990, Berners-Lee married Nancy Carlson, an American computer programmer.
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CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet:
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They moved together to Poole to work at Plessey, and then moved in 1980 to work at CERN together for a six-month contract.
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To work at CERN together for a six-month contract
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Studied at The Queen's College (1973–1976).
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Berners-Lee took a first in physics from The Queen's College, Oxford
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Studied at Emanuel School (1969–1973).
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Born 1955-06-08.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Awarded Fellow of the British Computer Society.
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Awarded honorary doctorate of Lancaster University.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University Polytechnic of Madrid.
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Career landmark: Participated in World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014 (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2015 (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2019 (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in The Web Conference 2018 (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013 (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in First International Conference on the World-Wide Web (tournament / event).
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