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Berners-Lee

Tim Berners Lee - Computer Scientist (1955 - )

House Berners-Lee is named after Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He is an inventor and engineer who created the World Wide Web. He showed a great amount of effort and creativity to make something like this, and is a kind and positive member of his community as he shared his creation with everyone!Written by RTS Student Council

  • Inventor of the World Wide Web

  • Received the 2016 Turing Award for inventing the WWW

  • Knighted in 2004 for his pioneering work

  • Designed the first Web browser and Web server

  • Professor at Oxford University and MIT in the USA