10 Things I didn't know about Tim Berners-Lee

1. That he was born on June 8, 1955.

2. I didn't know he was credited with creating the World Wide Web. (Dang! I wish I had thought of it!)

3. I didn't know it was first used on Christmas 1990 to send a communication.(Merry Christmas!)

4. Time Magazine, in 1999, named him one of the "100 Most Important People of the 20th Century", and in 2007, he was ranked in The Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses, alongside Albert Hofmann. (Pretty cool, huh?)

5. He is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). (Busy guy.)

6. And, in 2009, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. (wow!)

7. That he is a    computer scientist. (Dah!)

8. It was while he worked as an independent contractor at CERN in 1980, he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to make sharing and updating information among researchers easy, without having to physically be there. It was here that he built the prototype system, that was named "Enquire". In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet, by taking the hypertext idea and connecting it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas. The result: the World Wide Web. (It was meant to be.)

9. In 1994, he started the World Wide Web Consortium(W3C). It worked to create standards to that make the web what it is today. (Thank you)

10. He was taught to "believe in all kinds of unbelievable things". (That's how magic happens!)