Born June 8, 1955, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is a British engineer, computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web. (He also coined the term World Wide Web.) His paper, Information Management: A Proposal, detailing how the Web would operate, was published in March 1989. The first client-server HTTP communication via the Internet was sent on December 25, 1990.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true, and the propensity to miss lunch. -Tim Berners-Lee