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Sir Tim Berners-Lee was born June 5, 1955 in London, England and attended Oxford from 1973 to 76 where he earned a degree in Physics. In 1980, while working for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN being the French acronym) he proposed a hypertext project, hypertext being the linking of data that would ultimately make the internet possible.
He wrote a program prototype called ENQUIRE which would prove to be the predecessor for the modern internet. The initial intention of ENQUIRE was to better handle file interchanges between CERN’s 10,000 employees. Nearly ten years later Lee joined the hypertext program with the internet and the World Wide Web was born. In 1990 he began work on a system utilizing the structure of ENQUIRE.
The first website was brought online August, 6 1991. Three years later Lee founded the W3C, a consortium of various companies who created standards to improve the quality of the web. Lee allowed his idea to be used without royalty and has since championed net neutrality, the idea that ISP and governments should impose no restrictions on content, sites and platforms. He has equated internet freedom to a human rights issue.