World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee

This is the man thanks to whom we can surf the internet for free. In 1989, during his employment at the The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web – the infamous hypermedia for global content exchange. Currently, he serves as the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which he also founded in 1994 with the purpose of developing interoperable technologies (specifications, software, and tools) that allow for achieving the full potential of the network. He also founded the Web Science Trust as a charity that promotes education and research activities in the discipline of Web science. The trust is focused on investigating humanity in its intertwinement with technology through the theoretical apparatus of various scientific disciplines.