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Tim Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955,[1] also known as "TimBL"), is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989.[2] On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet ... more

Does Tim Berners-Lee realize how big the World Wide Web (WWW) would be & growing?

asked Dec 15 '10 at 07:54

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I met with a man named Avi Ornstein (an MIT alum) who shared a story about working with a group of computer scientists to "invent" this WWW phenomenon. It was a remarkable story he shared, what was even greater is that this was a personal meeting, one on one. Great to hear such awesome stories.

answered Dec 15 '10 at 12:44

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