Tim Berners Lee

Wrote the original WWW program 

• From David Shedden's New Media Timeline (1990):

"The World Wide Web (WWW) prototype is created at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. (The original WWW proposal came in 1989.) The lab is also known as CERN, or Conseil European Pour La Recherche Nucleaire. Tim Berners-Lee writes the original WWW program that merges the techniques of networked information and hypertext. "

• "Net guru peers into web's future" Interview with BBC

• "The Semantic Web" by Tim Berners-Lee 

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