Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Born June 8, 1955; 71 today. Alive at the same time as Barack Obama, Pablo Picasso, Pope Francis, Neil Armstrong, and Gabriel García Márquez. Wiki link