# Tim Berners-Lee **Domain:** Web Architecture / Information Systems **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Historical **Primary Source:** [[articles/The Art is Long|The Art is Long: Vespucci of Immortality]] **Related:** [[wiki/World Wide Web|World Wide Web]], [[wiki/CERN|CERN]], [[wiki/NeXT|NeXT]], [[wiki/Information Architecture|Information Architecture]] --- ## Definition **Tim Berners-Lee** developed the foundational technologies of the World Wide Web while working at CERN. ## Corpus Context The Web arose from a scientific information-management problem: documents, datasets, machine specifications, and results were distributed across incompatible institutions and systems. Berners-Lee implemented the first browser-editor and Web server on a NeXT computer, turning a laboratory coordination problem into globally addressable knowledge infrastructure. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people." > **— Tim Berners-Lee**, *2008, Knight Foundation speech* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Knight Foundation speech, 2008.* [[reminders/unverified/The Web Does Not Just Connect Machines It Connects People by Tim Berners-Lee|The Web Does Not Just Connect Machines It Connects People by Tim Berners-Lee]] ## Sources / Provenance - [The birth of the Web](https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web), CERN. - [[articles/The Art is Long|The Art is Long: Vespucci of Immortality]], section IV.