Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Tim Berners-Lee across 4 places, from 1955 to 2001.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Tim Berners-Lee was documented, and when
8 June 1955exact date
Londonattested“Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Berners-Lee ( Woods; 1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019).”source: Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee
1980year
Bournemouthattested“After leaving CERN in late 1980, he went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems, Ltd, in Bournemouth, Dorset.”source: Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee
2001year
Colehillattested“In 2001, Berners-Lee became a patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust, having previously lived in Colehill in Wimborne, East Dorset.”source: Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee
2001year
Wimborne Minsterattested“In 2001, Berners-Lee became a patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust, having previously lived in Colehill in Wimborne, East Dorset.”source: Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee
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1976year
The Queen's College, Oxfordmentioned“In 1976, Berners-Lee took a first in physics from The Queen's College, Oxford.”source: Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee
December 1980month
CERNmentioned“Berners-Lee worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980.”source: Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee
CERNmentioned“Berners-Lee published the first website, which described the project itself, on 20 December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network.”source: Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee
2016year
Oxford Universitymentioned“In 2016, he joined the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University as a professorial research fellow and as a fellow of Christ Church, one of the Oxford colleges.”source: Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee
2016year
Oxfordmentioned“In 2016, he joined the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University as a professorial research fellow and as a fellow of Christ Church, one of the Oxford colleges.”source: Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee
November 2019month
Berlinmentioned“In November 2019, at the Internet Governance Forum in Berlin, Berners-Lee and the WWWF launched Contract for the Web, a campaign initiative to persuade governments, companies and citizens to commit to nine principles to stop "misuse", wi…”source: Wikipedia: Tim Berners-Lee
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