Description: TIM BERNERS-LEE Signed Book Inscribed "Best Wishes / Tim Berners Lee / 2012/Nov/3" on title page in blue ink. This copy is a First Edition / First Printing and is in Fine condition. #003177 Timothy John Berners Lee was born on 8 June 1955 and grew up in London. He studied physics at Oxford University and became a software engineer. In 1980, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, he first described the concept of a global system, based on the concept of 'hypertext', that would allow researchers anywhere to share information. He also built a prototype called 'Enquire'. In 1984, Berners Lee's returned to CERN, which was also home to a major European Internet node. In 1989, Berners Lee published a paper called 'Information Management: A Proposal' in which he married up hypertext with the Internet, to create a system for sharing and distributing information not just within a company, but globally. He named it the World Wide Web. He also created the first web browser and editor. The world's first website, http://info.cern.ch, was launched on 6 August 1991. It explained the World Wide Web concept and gave users an introduction to getting started with their own websites. In 1994, Berners Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He has served as director of the consortium since then. He also works as a senior research scientist at LCS which has now become the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory The photographs shown in the listing are for display purposes only and not included as part of the sale. If you elect to send this autographed item to one of eBay's approved authenticators and are not satisfied with the results, the item can be returned within 30 days of purchase for a full refund to include return postage in the amount of the initial postage. This is one of the Best guarantees anywhere!
Price: 1975 USD
Location: Auburn, California
End Time: 2025-01-14T19:01:22.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Original/Reproduction: Original
Signed by: Tim Berners-Lee
Signed: Yes
Industry: Science, Inventor
