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[http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html Tim Berners-Lee Longer Bio]</ref>
[http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Longer.html Tim Berners-Lee Longer Bio]</ref>
In 1980, he served as consultant software engineer at the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. During his 6 months consultancy job at CERN, he wrote Enquire-his first hypertext system which was named after an old book he found at his parents house entiled, "Enquire Within upon Everything." He used Enquire to store information, track all the researchers and projects associated with CERN. The program was never published for commercial use however, the program became the foundation of the future development of the world wide web. <ref>[http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web]</ref>
In 1980, he served as consultant software engineer at the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucleaire ([[CERN]]), the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. During his 6 months consultancy job at CERN, he wrote '''Enquire'''-his first hypertext system which was named after an old book he found at his parents house entiled, "Enquire Within upon Everything." He used Enquire to store information, track all the researchers and projects associated with CERN. The program was never published for commercial use however, the program became the foundation of the future development of the world wide web. <ref>[http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and the World Wide Web]</ref>
In 1981, Tim served as Technical Design Lead at John Poole's Image Computer Systems for four years. He worked on real-time control firmware, graphics, communications software, generic macro language. In 1984, he returned to CERN and worked on distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition, system control and FASTBUS system software. He also designed a heterogeneous remote procedure call system.<ref>
In 1981, Tim served as Technical Design Lead at John Poole's Image Computer Systems for four years. He worked on real-time control firmware, graphics, communications software, generic macro language. In 1984, he returned to CERN and worked on distributed real-time systems for scientific data acquisition, system control and FASTBUS system software. He also designed a heterogeneous remote procedure call system.<ref>
On March 1989, Tim submitted a project proposal to his superior, Mike Sendall at CERN to develop an information management system that will allow an automatic information sharing using a global hypertext system among scientists in different institutes and universities worldwide. His idea was to combine the technologies of computer networking, hypertext and personal computers to create a global and powerful information system. Sendall commented that the proposal was "vague but interesting."<ref>
On March 1989, Tim submitted a project proposal to his superior, Mike Sendall at CERN to develop an information management system that will allow an automatic information sharing using a global hypertext system among scientists in different institutes and universities worldwide. His idea was to combine the technologies of computer networking, hypertext and personal computers to create a global and powerful information system. Sendall commented that the proposal was "vague but interesting."<ref>
[http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html Tim Berners-Lee's proposal]</ref> <ref>[http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/about/web-en.html Where the Web was Born]</ref>
[http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html Tim Berners-Lee's proposal]</ref> <ref>[http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/about/web-en.html Where the Web was Born]</ref>
Berners-Lee developed the hypertext transfer protocol ([[HTTP]], the language used in computers to communicate hypertext documents over the internet and the universal resource identifier ([[URI]]) now called [[URL]] or uniform resource locator, a system used to locate documents by assigning a unique address while aiting for CERN to approve his proposal.<ref>[http://www.nndb.com/people/573/000023504/ Tim Berners-Lee Profile on NNDB tracking the entire world]</ref>
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