Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN, fundamentally transforming how information is shared and accessed globally.
While working at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, Berners-Lee proposed a system for sharing information between researchers using hypertext, which became the foundation of the World Wide Web.
He created the first web browser, web server, and the core technologies still used today, including HTML, URLs, and HTTP, and made the technology freely available without patent restrictions.
Berners-Lee later founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to help guide the web's development and has remained a vocal advocate for an open, accessible internet free from excessive corporate or governmental control.