Father of world wide web: Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee is a man working for the greater good. He's the man most responsible for the World Wide Web, sometimes called the "Father of the World Wide Web." But it was, indeed, a long road to get there.
As early as the 1960s, Douglas Engelbart produced the first hypertext system. Engelbart was also the inventor of the mouse. However, the term "hypertext" was not used until 1968 when it was coined by Ted Nelson.
Research that led to the Internet began in the early 1970s. Charles Goldfarb invented SGML in 1979. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) used for the web, is an SGML application. It was also in the 1970s that Radia Perlman developed the spanning-tree algorithm which enables the Internet to retrieve information.
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955, also known as "TBL"), is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet.

Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a director of The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. In April 2009, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C.
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