Tim Berners-Lee

Born 1955 · Inventor of the World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and founded the World Wide Web Consortium. His accounts of the Web emphasize cooperation, open standards and universal access.

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4 quotes we’ve traced to Tim Berners-Lee

“The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information”

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“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect”

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“This is for everyone”

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“The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people”

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