Prof Sir Tim Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, Digital, Debrett's 500 2015, People

Prof Sir Tim Berners-Lee, OM, KBE

INVENTOR OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB

As the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is one of the most influential and important computer scientists of our time. Born in London, he was introduced to electronics as a child while playing with a model railway, and went on to read Physics at The Queen’s College, Oxford. He is director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the web’s continued development, and currently leads the 2013-launched Alliance for Affordable Internet. Formed from a coalition of public and private companies including Facebook, Microsoft, Intel and Google, the body hopes to make the internet less expensive so that those in the developing world are able to access it.