# Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee is a modern public computer scientist who proposed and implemented the World Wide Web at CERN and later led standards and advocacy efforts around an open web. His contribution joined URLs, HTTP, HTML, browsers, servers, and open publication into a practical hypertext system built on the internet, followed by stewardship through the World Wide Web Consortium.

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