World Wide Web Day: Know more about creator of web and how to celebrate it

Every year web users celebrate World Wide Web Day on August 1. For those who are regular users of the internet, the significance of this day is very clear. Without this virtual world, it is simply impossible to carry out a single official activity. The Corona pandemic literally proved that the world can come to a standstill if there is no internet. But who was the person who introduced this wonderful world of the web to all of us?

On World Wide Web Day today, know about this extraordinary inventor and also ways to celebrate this day.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the web

Tim Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist invented the web while he was working at CERN which is also known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He passed the proposal to create the web in 1989 and CERN implemented the system by the end of 1990. Just a year after that, the web was made open outside of CERN in 1991.

Currently, this great scientist is working at the University of Oxford as a professional research fellow. He is also working as a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Apart from that Lee is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as well as the co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. He has been awarded multiple awards and honours for his contribution and other pioneering works including the Order of Merit (OM) as well as Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).

He has been named as one of the most important people among the 100 in Time magazine’s list.

How to celebrate it? Know more about it!

While nowadays, even a kid knows how to use the web, very few people are aware of the history behind it and the people who contributed to making it so big.

So, the best way to celebrate this day is by trying to dig out more information about the internet and know more about it so that you can really understand and appreciate the efforts that went behind its invention.