Influential People. Throughout history mankind has been on a continuous quest to facilitate the progression of science and technology. The nineties saw a major development with the invention of the world wide web created by Timothy Berners-Lee.

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Throughout history mankind has been on a continuous quest to facilitate the progression of science and technology. The nineties saw a major development with the invention of the world wide web created by Timothy Berners-Lee. His work allowed important resources such as news from across all corners of the world, a wealth of knowledge as well conveniences such as online banking, shopping to be brought together and easily accessed on one single platform. His development of the remarkable global phenomena has, today, transformed into a powerful tool for man, allowing almost everything to be a click away.

Tim Berners-Lee was born in London June 8, 1955. As both of his parents worked on the first commercial computer, computing came very naturally to him. After graduating from Oxford University in 1976, Berners-Lee worked for Plessey Telecommunications Ltd. for two years designing computer software. Following this, he had several positions in the computer industry which included working as a software engineering consultant at CERN, a computer systems designer at mage Computer Systems Ltd. and in the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva. While at CERN, Berners-Lee developed a program in his private time called Enquire, which could store information in files that contained connections, commonly referred to as ‘links’, among separate files known as hypertext. In 1984, he worked on the design of the laboratory's computer network, developing procedures that allowing various computers to communicate with one another. In 1989 Berners-Lee put forward a proposal for creating a global hypertext document system that would soon form the foundations of the Internet. In the brief period from October 1990 to the summer of 1991, Berners-Lee wrote the software for the first Web server where files are shared and the first ‘browser’, a program that allows files to be access and displayed (BBC, 2011)

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Essentially, the internet is a large number of computers connected together in such a way that communication between them is reliable and efficient. Originally, Berners-Lees intention was to provide researchers with the ability to share scientific data without having to constantly exchange e-mails. Instead, researchers would place such information ‘online,’ where multiple peers at anytime could immediately retrieve it. However Berners-Lee quickly realised that it could have uses for many types of documents. The Internet today is used by a range people, not only to communicate and to share information but also to build relationships and communities among many other ...

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