In addition to his vision for the World Wide Web , Berners-Lee developed the first web browser , WorldWideWeb , in 1990 . This browser allowed users to access information stored on various servers by navigating through hyperlinks . To encourage others to adopt his groundbreaking technologies , Berners- Lee made them freely available , setting the stage for an open and collaborative internet environment . In 1991 , he posted the first web page ever , providing a platform for people to access information on the nascent web .

Today , Berners-Lee is the co-founder and CTO of Inrupt . com , a tech start-up which uses , promotes and helps develop the open source Solid platform . Solid aims to give people control and agency over their data , questioning many assumptions about how the web has to work .

Solid technically is a new level of standard at the web layer , which adds things never put into the original spec , such as global single sign-on , universal access control , and a universal data API so that any app can store data in any storage place . Socially Solid is a

movement away from much of the issues with the current WWW , and toward a world in which users are in control , and empowered by large amounts of data , private , shared , and public .

Berners-Lee is the Founder and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), the international standards forum for technical development of the Web , and the Web Foundation whose mission is that the World Wide Web serves Humanity . He co-founded and is President of the Open Data Institute in London .

He is also a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) in the Computer Science and AI Lab (“ CSAIL ”) where his research group works to re-decentralize the web .

In 2004 , Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the global development of the internet . He was also awarded the Order of Merit , one of the UK ’ s highest honors , in 2007 . Furthermore , he received the Turing Award in 2016 for his invention of the World Wide Web , solidifying his place in history as one of the most influential technologists of all time .

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