He succeeded, and in the process created the World Wide Web. This Internet-based hypermedia system for global information-sharing sparked the "Internet explosion" of the last few years, and forever changed the world's flow of information. Tim wrote both the first Web clients and the first Web server, and he defined the URL, HTTP and HTML specifications on which the Web depends. He did most of this world-changing work in late 1990 at CERN, but since then has moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS). He doubles as Director of the W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose mission is to realize the full potential of the Web.