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   20th century

   This changed when Tim Berners-Lee devised a simpler form of Vannevar Bush's hypertext, which he dubbed the World Wide Web.
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   Information science

   By 1872 Lord Kelvin devised an analogue computer to predict the tides, and by 1875 Frank Baldwin was granted the first US patent for a practical calculating machine that performs four arithmetic functions. ... It derives from W3C director Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.
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   Culture of the United Kingdom

   Alan Turing, Frank Whittle (inventor of the jet engine), Charles Babbage (who devised the idea of the computer) and Alexander Fleming (discoverer of penicillin) were all British. The UK remains one of the leading providers of technological innovations today, providing inventions as diverse as the World Wide Web and Viagra (created by Tim Berners-Lee and Pfizer respectively).
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   English inventions and discoveries

   World Wide Web - Sir Tim Berners-Lee ... Darts - is a traditional pub game, the numbering layout was devised by Brian Gamlin
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   List of University of Michigan alumni

   This led to a common proposal in 1990 and then to the World Wide Web. Won the 1995 ACM Software System Award with Tim Berners-Lee
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   History of blogging timeline

   Usenet was the primary serial medium included in the original definition of the World Wide Web. ... ↑ Berners-Lee, Tim (November 1990).
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   University of Oxford

   Another founder, Walter de Merton, a chancellor of England and afterwards Bishop of Rochester, devised a series of regulations for college life; Merton College thereby became the model for such establishments at Oxford as well as at the University of Cambridge. ... Some contemporary scientists include Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and Nobel prize-winner Anthony James Leggett, and Tim Berners-Lee, co-inventor of the World Wide Web.

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