Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is a British Computer Scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web (1990).
In 1980 he joined CERN as an independent contractor and proposed a project based of hypertext to facilitate sharing and updating information amongst researcher and would go on to prototype a system known as ENQUIRE to accomplish this objective.
After a brief stint at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, he would return to CERN in 1989 as a fellow and saw a tremendous opportunity to use ENQUIRE as a springboard to merge Hypertext with the internet to create the World Wide Web (WWW).
His proposal for the WWW was submitted in March 1989 and launched in 1990, and has since been referred to as Web 1.0.