# Tim Berners-Lee (@tim-berners-lee)

Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN. He combined networked hypertext with identifiers, transfer protocols, and document formats, then helped build institutions for open, interoperable standards.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Tim Berners-Lee's public record._

## Topics

- [Inventing the World Wide Web](/@tim-berners-lee/inventing-the-web.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [An Open Web](/@tim-berners-lee/open-web.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Building Web Standards](/@tim-berners-lee/web-standards.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee-Bio/
- blog: https://www.w3.org/about/history/
- blog: https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
- blog: https://home.cern/news/news/computing/twenty-years-free-open-web

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "tim-berners-lee", "question": "…"}`.