Tim created a global system based on the concept of hypertext. The prototype was called Enquire.

6th August 1991 is the date the Web went World Wide 

Created the first web browser and editor. The world's first website, http://info.cern.ch, was launched on 6 August 1991. It explained the World Wide Web concept and gave users an introduction to getting started with their own websites.

His parents were computer programmers for the first commercially available computer, the Ferranti Mark 1

In 1994, Berners Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He has served as director of the consortium since then. He also works as a senior research scientist at LCS which has now become the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

He received a knighthood in 2004 from Queen Elizabeth II.

A bronze sculpture of Tim has been put on display at the National Portrait Gallery to mark his 60th birthday

One of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century’

Tim and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on the next stage of the web, the semantic web, which is standardising data across all industries. Using a universal common operating system will enable companies to operate their own systems on the web.