Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03

Tim Berners-Lee Biography and Timeline

Follow Tim Berners-Lee through 5 dated historical records for Great Britain.

Tim Berners-Lee, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

5Distinct records
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1955–1996Years on this page

1955

Birth of Tim Berners-Lee

London · Science / Technology

Birth of Tim Berners-Lee

1991

Invention of World Wide Web

Science / Technology

Builds the 1st web site http://info.cern.ch which goes live

1994

Invention of World Wide Web

Science / Technology

Berners-Lee founds the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

W3C

Massachusetts · Science / Technology

Berners-Lee founds the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

1996

Invention of CSS

Massachusetts · Science / Technology

Berners-Lee helps invent a standard entitled Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Records, sources and methodology

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