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Tim Berners-Lee
8 June 1955 – present
English computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web while at CERN, then gave it to the world royalty-free and has spent decades defending its openness.
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Proposed the World Wide Web at CERN
March 1989
Wrote "Information Management: A Proposal".
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Founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
October 1994
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