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Tim Berners-Lee  

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  • 1955 – World Wide Web Inventor A quiet, modest Englishman with training in theoretical physics, Tim Berners-Lee brought the Internet to the masses in 1991 after creating the definitive window through which to view cyberspace, then campaigning tirelessly to assure that everyone who wanted to access it could do so for free. Given the scope of the World Wide Web and its potential to transform human communications, the impact of Berners-Lee's invention has been likened to that of Gutenberg's movable-type printing press. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Berners-Lee, Tim]

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