Tim Berners-Lee: The Man Who Launched the World Wide Web and Continues Pushing to Improve It
• In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed the idea of the World Wide Web while working at CERN, but it took 18 months before he was granted time to work on it. He launched the first web server in 1991.
• In 1994, with over 10,000 web servers online, Berners-Lee moved to MIT where he founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to set standards.
• He promoted the idea of the "semantic web" - a machine-readable web that allows advanced querying of connected information.
• In 2009 he set up the World Wide Web Foundation to advocate for affordable internet access and privacy rights.
• Recently he has promoted "Solid" - a protocol that gives people control over their data via personal online data pods, and founded Inrupt to commercialize this.