English computer scientist, Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (born 1955), invented the world wide web. He also created the first web browser. Berners-Lee first came up with the idea while working for CERN in Geneva. He saw the possibility of joining hypertext, a way of sharing information between researchers, and the internet, a computer network already in existence. Berners-Lee works as a senior research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA.

World wide web

In 1980, while working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, he first described the concept of a global system, based on "hypertext" (text displayed on a computer screen with references, called hyperlinks, to other text that the reader can immediately access). This allowed researchers anywhere in the world to share information via the internet, a computer network that had existed since the 1960s.