Tim Berners-Lee

This is so old that it was made before you, the reader, were born.

Oh exploitable... this is just ripe for being made into several thousand image macros.

Tim Berners-Lee is the man who founded your Internets, and as such is a strong candidate for being the Final Boss - after all, it's only obvious that anyone who created the Internet like God supposedly created the universe is a powerful being indeed. Indeed, the fact that Encyclopedia Dramatica didn't have an article on him for at least 100 years was something of an in-joke. The man himself was born in England less than 100 years ago, and his full name is Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA, according to Wikipedia.

However, he is actually only credited with the invention of the World Wide Web, not the internet as a whole. This means that although he created it, along with his BFF the Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau and a young boy who happened to be there at the time, the internet as such existed long before the World Wide Web. However, for all practical purposes, before the WWW, the internet was shit and nobody cared about it.

Note that although Berners-Lee is the co-creator of the World Wide Web, people nowadays have surely taken to the older term 'Internet', and the terms 'Web' and in particular 'World Wide Web' are falling into disuse amongst the general population. However Berners-Lee's invention does live on in portmanteau words such as website, lawl. No one has ever been able to quite track down how or why the shift occurred between Pokemon first coming out, Geoshitties' extended popularity and Britney Spears singing "Born to Make You Happy" when people still called it the 'World Wide Web' and the dawn of YouTube, Wikipedia and MySpace when everyone found themselves listening to emo and calling it 'the Internet' again.

Berners-Lee's parents were mathematicians. And they both still are, actually, despite being very old yet somehow still alive.

Moar about Berners-Lee

When he was a young boy, he studied hard at school, went to one of England's most prestigious universities, and went on to graduate with a first. Since the economy at the time was not shit, he had no problem in finding a real job, and this led to him becoming successful in life. You will never be as good as him, by virtue of the fact that you are reading this page right now.

However, Berners-Lee is a pretty cool guy. We think this because he is in favour of net neutrality, and is all for the freedom of speech and of information online. Making the internet like cable TV would certainly result in chaos on our streets by angry /b/tards, and Berners-Lee does what he does not only to make the world a safer place, but he also does it for the lulz.

He also runs the World Wide Web Consortium. This means he is responsible for maintaining the standards that the internets are run on, and remains vehemently opposed to any new top-level domains coming into existence, even though they will, according to a news report last Thursday.

See Also

• HTTP