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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Berners-Lee, Tim | Art | The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee graduated from Oxford University in physics and worked in the telecommunications industry in England before he was granted a fellowship in 1984 at CERN, a high-energy physics lab in Geneva. In 1989, he proposed that CERN fund the development of a hypertext data system and spent the next five years facilitating the design of what quickly became a global electronic communications system. In 1994, Berners-Lee moved to the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT where he continued to develop Web tools and standards. Although Berners-Lee has received awards for his work, he elected not to copyright or profit from his invention because he wanted the Web to remain widely accessible. He has been quoted as saying, "....you can have an idea...and it can happen. It means that dreamers all over the world should take note and not stop." (references) | |
| Berners-Lee, Tim | Computing | Berners-Lee, Tim Tim Berners-Lee. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
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