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History
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, England, United Kingdom. He had three siblings, his parents were Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee. Conway and Mary worked on the first commercially built computer, the Ferranti Mark 1. He went to Sheen Mount Primary School, and then went on to attend south west London's Emanuel School from 1969 to 1973. He learned about electronics by playing with a model railway. Later on he studied at the Queen's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976, and received a first-class bachelor of arts degree in physics.

Development of the World Wide Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web. He was an English engineer and computer scientist. At CERN in Geneva Switzerland, Berners-Lee and Robert Cailiau (Belgian computer scientist) proposed in 1990 to use HyperText (Hyperlink) to link and access information of different web nodes in which the user can browse at will. He then made international protocols so that all computers understood the information being sent to each-other. Berners-Lee released his idea to the public to use for free since he believed this technology was for the whole world to use. Tim Berners-Lee founded The World Wide Web Consortium in 1994 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This comprised various companies that created standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the World Wide Web.