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Early Life and Inspirations Sir Timothy John Berners‑Lee, born June 8, 1955, in London, England, was destined to make history. His parents, Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners‑Lee, were both early computers scientists involved in the Manchester Mark 1, one of the world’s first stored-program computers. Growing up among teleprinters and punch-card systems likely seeded his interest in computing. After thriving at Emanuel School, Windsor, Tim pursued physics at The Queen’s College, Oxford , graduating in 1976. He later described how Oxford's hands-on environment gave him “honeymoon access” to computers that shaped his passion for programming and systems design. From Physics Graduate to Software Engineer After Oxford , Berners‑Lee spent several years working as an engineer at Plessey Telecom, developing for real-time systems. These early roles honed his programming instincts and revealed the limitations imposed by proprietary systems—a realization that would later fuel his insistenc...