Tim Berners-Lee
In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee saw the potential for a communication phenomenon. What began as a tool to communicate, facilitate, and update information among researches within a single organization has now become the quintessential means of communication throughout the world. Tim Berners-Lee has garnered many achievements in his career due to his invention of the World Wide Web. Some of these notable achievements include: The founding of the World Wide Web Consortium, to allow the utilization of the World Wide Web to be free and universally accessible, and the invention of the 1st web browser. However, much of Mr. Berners-Lee’s continuing results would not have been possible without his determination, persistence, and strong desire for universal communication. Tim Berners-Lee began his endeavor in 1980 after landing a temporary contract position with CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. There he wrote a program, Enquire, to remain connected and communicate information across the numerous CERN labs. Subsequent to leaving CERN and taking on similar positions among several companies, Berners-Lee submitted a proposal to
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Such an example is what the Consortium is trying to dissuade. Overall the elemental ideas of the World Wide Web are simple, Berners-Lee's vision was to combine them in a way which is constantly in a state of flux and moving toward its greater potential. “Perhaps the single greatest contribution was to make his invention available freely with no patent and no royalties due.” [http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Berners_Lee_Tim.html] When he founded the W3C in 1994, the organization decided that their standards must be based on royalty-free technology, so they can be easily adopted by anyone. With the advancement of smart and mobile technology, the Web is still only in its infancy with plenty of room to
Such an example is what the Consortium is trying to dissuade. Overall the elemental ideas of the World Wide Web are simple, Berners-Lee's vision was to combine them in a way which is constantly in a state of flux and moving toward its greater potential. “Perhaps the single greatest contribution was to make his invention available freely with no patent and no royalties due.” [http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Berners_Lee_Tim.html] When he founded the W3C in 1994, the organization decided that their standards must be based on royalty-free technology, so they can be easily adopted by anyone. With the advancement of smart and mobile technology, the Web is still only in its infancy with plenty of room to