Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, KBE (born June 8, 1955 in London, England) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development. Informally, in technical circles, he is sometimes called "TimBL" or "TBL".

Berners-Lee was born in London, England, the son  of Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods. His parents, who were both mathematicians, were employed together on the team that built the Manchester Mark I, one of the  earliest computers. They taught Berners-Lee to use   mathematics everywhere, even at the dinner table. Berners-Lee attended Sheen Mount Primary School (which has dedicated a new hall in his honour) before moving on to Emanuel School in Wandsworth. He is an alumnus of Queen's College (where he played tiddlywinks for Oxford, against rivals Cambridge), Oxford University (which has dedicated a computer room in his honour), where he built a computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. While at Oxford, he was caught hacking with a friend and was subsequently banned from using the university computer.

He worked at Plessey Telecommunications Limited in 1976 as a programmer and where he married his first wife Jane, a fellow employee, and in 1978, he worked at D.G. Nash Limited where he wrote typesetting software and an operating system.

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