Tim Berners-Lee

Timothy John Berners-Lee was born in London, England, to Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods. Both parents were mathematicians and worked on the Ferranti Mark I, the first commercially available electronic digital computer.

Berners-Lee attended Emanuel School in London, where he developed an early interest in electronics and computing. He tinkered with model railway sets and built computers from spare parts.

He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, receiving a first-class BA degree in Physics in 1976. While at Oxford, he built a computer from TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television.