Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system and HTTP. He proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989 and implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server over the Internet in mid-November of that year, devising and implementing the first web browser and web server and helping foster the web's subsequent development. He is founder and emeritus director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the web's continued development, co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation with Rosemary Leith, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 for his pioneering work.