Tim Berners-Lee, British computer scientist, generally credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web. In 2004 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and received the Millennium Technology Prize from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. In 2007 he was awarded the Draper Prize by the National Academy of Engineering.

He invented the World Wide Web. He received a knighthood in 2004 from Queen Elizabeth II. He is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) a group set up to oversee the development of the World Wide Web. He was honoured during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He was born on 8th June 1955 in London.

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS (born 8 June 1955) is the English inventor of the World Wide Web and he created a new computer language called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) which most web pages are written in. The first web page was available on 6 August 1991. Berners-Lee now leads the World Wide Web Consortium.

The “World Wide Web,” one of the most groundbreaking technologies of the 20th century, was created by British computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee. He was employed at “CERN” as a trained software engineer when he thought of the concept for a world network system. Sir Tim also developed the first web editor and browser in history.

Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989 and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November. He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server and helped foster the Web's subsequent explosive development.