London-born Tim Berners-Lee's innovation was enormous indeed: the World Wide Web.
This Oxford University graduate, whose parents had worked on some of the very earliest computers before him, conceived of the Web and put it online in August 1991. In 1994, he also became founder of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. He became the Consortium's director, although he has chosen to make personal wealth a low priority.
As with a good many inventors and innovators, Berners-Lee made his celebrity-producing innovation early in his career. His ideas about establishing a global web of information date from the mid 1980s. In 1990, he created Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, his means of providing Internet addresses.
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