Father of web, Sir TimBL won computing’s Nobel Prize
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web or Internet, is set to be honored with Turing Award 2016 by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Berners-Lee, pioneering computer scientist, is currently a researcher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is also a visiting professor at MIT and Oxford University. With his leading inventions resulting era of today's interconnected and global online world, BL had introduced naming scheme Uniform Resource identifiers(URIs), Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP) - a communications protocol and Hypertext Markup Language(HTML) - a language for webpages.
TechCrunch writes, "Britain-born Berners-Lee pioneered the web in 1989 while working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as a way to allow scientists across the world to share information. His credits include the creation of a naming scheme (URIs), a communications protocol (HTTP) and a language for webpages (HTML). In addition, he coded the first browser using open-source — that helped develop early browsers like Mosaic which popularized the web beyond the world of academia."
Without his inventions, it is hard to imagine today's online world with endless, free and open access to information.
Some of the links to the archives of his early proposal:
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/04/tim-berners-lee-turing-award