THE WORLD WIDE WEB

The world wide web was invented by Tim Burners lee in 1991. He is on the right. He graduated from Oxford University. He's also a proffesor  of Electronics and Science Dpartment at Southampton University. He was knighted by the queen in 2007. The World Wide Web he created has revolutionized computers for ever. Without it we may not be able to play games or even use social networking sites. Berners-Lee currently lives in Lexington, Massachusetts (USA), is married to Nancy Carlson, and has two children, Alice and Ben.
here is a timeline of this mans life 

• 1976 A Physics graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford University, UK. Principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications in Poole, Dorset, UK.
• 1980 First hypertext system called "Enquire"
• 1981–1984 Director of Image Computer Systems
• 1984 Started at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1989 Writes his proposal for a global hypertext system.
• 1990 Writes the World Wide Web server, and client software for NeXTStep.
• 1995 Received a "Kilby Young Innovator" award by the The Kilby Awards Foundation and was a co-recipient of the ACM Software Systems Award.
• 1996, July Was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship of the British Computer Society
  Currently The Director of the W3C and also at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the 3Com Founders Professor in the School of Engineering and at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL).
• A director of The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),[5] and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence