In this article about the best developers, we will talk about Tim Berners-Lee, one of the pioneers of the web (World Wide Web). In 1989, Berners-Lee established the first communication between a client and a server using the HTTP protocol (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). But he didn't stop there, because in 1994 he founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which supervises and standardizes the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
Tim Berners-Lee is an Englishman who had the right family environment to become one of the pioneers of the Internet years later. His parents built one of the first computers (the Manchester Mark I). After his university studies, he started working at D.G. Nash Limited, where he wrote his first operating system.
Tim Berners-Lee and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
In the early 1980s, he started working on a hypertext-based project to share information about his projects with different colleagues. In this way, he took advantage of the resources of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), where he worked. To use the largest Internet node in Europe and combine hypertext with the Internet, the result was HTTP and HTML.
Berners-Lee developed the fundamental ideas that structure the web: HTML (HyperText Markup Language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), and the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) system for locating objects on the web.
For this connection, he built the first web browser (WorldWideWeb) and the first web server called httpd (HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon). Undoubtedly, Tim Berners-Lee was inspired by the Xanadu project (Ted Nelson) and the memex (Vannevar Bush) to shape his project of the first connection between a client and a server under HTTP standards.
Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C
In 1994, he moved to the U.S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and took charge of the W3C, an international organization for web standardization. This organization decided that all standards should be free and open.
Tim Berners-Lee Today
After receiving many awards around the world, Berners-Lee is currently working on the semantic web project. This project is developed at the World Wide Web Consortium and is based on the idea of adding semantic and ontological metadata to the World Wide Web. The goal is to improve the Internet by expanding interoperability between intelligent systems not operated by humans. Tim Berners-Lee is a pioneer in this concept and tried to implement it in the early days of the World Wide Web, but it was not included. For this reason, he decided to develop this project today.
