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Nerds You Should Know (cont)

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

 
  • Oxford CS Graduate (1976)
  • Software engineer at CERN
  • Founder/Director of W3C at MIT (1994)
  • Inventing the Web …
    • distributed hypertext
    • linking heterogeneous documents
    • universal naming scheme (URL)
    • transfer protocol (http)
    • Initial feedback: "Vague, but exciting..."
    • later apologised for initial pair of slashes ('//') in a web address
    • also thinks he should have defined web addresses the other way round (au.edu.unsw.cse)
    • September 2025, ABC News Breakfast: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-10/sir-tim-berners-lee-says-he-invented-the-world/105757166
  • Winner of the Turing Award in 2016