Looking back, Berners-Lee notes this could have all looked very arrogant 10 years ago.
"Vague, but exciting, " Berners-Lee's supervisor wrote on the cover of a proposal while greenlighting the project.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is among those who have won the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web, a multimedia branch of the Internet.
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In his acceptance speech, Tim Berners-Lee said the internet was still in its infancy.
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It's already well developed and adopted, so the first steps toward realizing Berners-Lee's vision have already occurred.
Mr Berners-Lee would like to make it easier for users to create their own links to documents.
Weitzner, Harold Abelson and Tim Berners-Lee, et al. Communications of the ACM, vol 51, issue 6, June 2008.
With Berners-Lee's "http protocol, " computer jockeys the world over began making the Net easier to use with point-and-click programs.
Sir David and Prof Hawking finished above explorer Ranulph Fiennes, Prince Charles and world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
Although it also upholds the consensus principle, it is more top down, with Mr Berners-Lee acting as a benevolent dictator.
Downing Street has released the names of more guests who will attend Lady Thatcher's funeral, including internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Data.gov.uk has been developed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Professor Nigel Shadbolt at the University of Southampton.
Dr Decker said the promise of the semantic web had spurred visionaries such as Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart and Tim Berners-Lee.
British physicist Tim Berners-Lee created and named the Web (also commonly called "W3" for short in those days) in 1989 at CERN.
W3C is not the place to deal with them, says Mr Berners-Lee.
The Web refers to the graphical portion of the Internet built around the hypertext-transport protocol created by physicist Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
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Since 1990: Tim Berners-Lee completed his work on the World Wide Web.
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Despite BT's claims to the contrary, Tim Berners-Lee is usually credited with inventing the global hypertext system that became the world wide web.
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Tim Berners-Lee, who played the greatest role in creating the World Wide Web, is now devising "the semantic web, " a kind of intelligence to rest atop his creation.
Mr Berners-Lee says that in creating the WWW he drew on the work of computing pioneer Ted Nelson - who is widely regarded as the father of hypertext.
Berners-Lee defined HTML in SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language.
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