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Founded the World Wide Web Consortium.
W3C was created to develop the Web through shared, open standards rather than a proprietary system.
GOTDONE ARCHIVE · 1955 to present
4 public itemsTim Berners-Lee
Computer scientist
PHOTO: Internet Archive / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain ↗Turned hypertext, networks, and open standards into the World Wide Web.
What Tim got done.
Every item links to its source.SOURCECERN ↗
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Opened the Web to developers outside CERN.
He invited collaborators over the internet to help extend a system a small CERN team could not build alone.
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Built the first web server and browser at CERN.
By the end of the year, the first server and browser were running on a NeXT computer in his office.
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Wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web.
The proposal joined hypertext, computers, and data networks into a system for sharing information.