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Famous People of the Internet

Quiz -- Question 1 of 15

In the late 1980's, he designed the World Wide Web, and later launched the first official web pages in 1989. Recently, Queen Elizabeth knighted him for outstanding service as a British citizen:

 

 

 

A. Lawrence Page
 
B. Tim Berners-Lee
 
C. Jarome Morrow
 
D. Riddick Bowe
 


Tim Berners-Lee is a software engineer.  While working in the late 1980's at Switzerland's CERN physics laboratory, Tim devised a way of electronically sending computer documentation as "more than just words" (hypertext).

In 1989, he created the HTML hypertext markup language.  In 1991, it became publicly available to everyone through online Internet connections.

Today, Tim is a director with the Worldwide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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