In creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners Lee
collaborated with Robert Cailliau. His fascination for computers started in
1970 during a CERN project that he was part of in University.
Robert Cialliau was born on the 26th of
January the year 1947 in a town called Tongeren in Belgium. He is a graduate of
civil engineering with a specialty in electrical and mechanical engineering from
Ghent University. He graduated in the year 1969.In the year 1971, he got an MSc in computer,
information and control engineering from the University of Michigan.
It was in the year 1989 that Tim Berners Lee brought
a proposal/idea of creating a hypertext system that could help one to access so
many documents related to CERN to Robert Cialliau.
It was this idea that led to the creation of the
World Wide Web by Tim Berners Lee in between September and December of the year
1990.
According to an article on the CERN website http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/people/Cailliau-en.html
- Robert Cialliau is quoted to have said that when he first started working
with Tim Berners Lee, “Tim Berners Lee had an idea and a means to turn it into
reality”
He also admits that when they started working, Tim
Berners Lee had no idea on what to name his idea and it was after a while in
1990 that they discovered that they really needed a name for the idea.He also states that deep down in Tim Berners Lee’s
head-he had already thought of a name that he would name the creation later
hence World Wide Web.
He also states that Berners Lee had a great belief in his
creation even before it had hit the entire.Whereas Tim Berners Lee proceeded with more
inventions in the IT world, Robert Cailliau, decided to let it go after a
record ten years.
That is the story of the collaboration between Tim
Berners Lee and Robert Cailliau
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