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His parents, both mathematicians, were employed together on the team that built the Manchester Mark I, one of the earliest computers. They taught Berners-Lee to use mathematics everywhere, even at the dinner table. Berners-Lee attended Sheen Mount Primary School (which has dedicated a new hall in his honor) before moving on to study his O-Levels and A-Levels at Emanuel School in Wandsworth.

He is an alumnus of The Queen's College, Oxford where he played table tennis for Oxford, against rival Cambridge. While at Queen's, Berners-Lee built a computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. During his time at university, he was caught hacking with a friend and was subsequently banned from using the university computer. He graduated in 1976 with a degree in physics.

He met his first wife Jane while at Oxford and they married soon after they started work in Poole. After graduation, Berners-Lee was employed at Plessey Controls Limited in Poole as a programmer. Jane also worked at Plessey Telecommunications Limited in Poole. In 1978, he worked at D.G. Nash Limited (also in Poole) where he wrote typesetting software and an operating system.

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    • Jack D. Logan Jack D. Logan
      19 months ago


      I wish I had words to convey the gratitude that we all feel at the generosity and selflessness of this man. He, together with Robert Cailliau and a close group of colleagues working at CERN in the early 1990s, reshaped the destiny of humankind with their gift of the World Wide Web. And, progress continues today with Sir Tim's magnanimous leadership from his positions as Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Senior Researcher at MIT's CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) where he leads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG), and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS. He could have been one of the richest men in the world today; yet, he chose another path. Thank you, Sir Tim.
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