Father of the Internet Tim Berners-Lee:

Tim Berners-Lee was the man leading the development of the World Wide Web (with help of course), the defining of HTML (hypertext markup language) used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). All of those developments took place between 1989 and 1991. Tim Berners-Lee is considered the primary author of HTML, assisted by his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland
Born in 1955 in London, England, Tim Berners-Lee's parents were both mathematicians. They both worked on the Ferranti Mark I computer. Tim Berners-Lee loved electronics from an early age. He graduated as a Physics major from Oxford University in 1976. At Oxford he built his first computer using: a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television

Early jobs included: working on bar code technology; writing typesetting software; writing a generic macro language; working on FASTBUS system software and designing a heterogeneous remote procedure call system. In 1980, while a freelancer ar CERN, he wrote but never published his first program for storing information called "Enquire" thar forshadowed his later work on the World Wide Web.