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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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   Feature Driven Development

   FDD was initially devised by Jeff De Luca to meet the specific needs of a 15 month, 50 person software development project at a large Singapore bank in 1997. ... Charles Bachman • Kent Beck • Tim Berners-Lee • Grady Booch • Fred Brooks • Edsger W. Dijkstra • Tom Gruber • Ivar Jacobson • James Rumbaugh
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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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   Douglas Adams

   This was the same year that Tim Berners-Lee used the idea of hypertext in his HTML. ... 42 puzzle, the 42 Puzzle is a game devised by Douglas Adams in 1994 for the United States series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books.
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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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   History of blogging timeline

   Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms. ... ↑ Berners-Lee, Tim (November 1990).
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   Timeline of computing 1990–present

   The A3000T was the first Amiga to use a tower form factor, which increased expansion potential. | ... Tim Berners-Lee awarded the Institute of Physics' 1997 Duddell Medal for inventing the World Wide Web (see 1989).
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    University of Kansas

    Lynx itself provided hypertext browsing and navigation prior to Tim Berners Lee's invention of HTTP and HTML. ... In the elections, coalitions form plans on what student services they will focus on as well as propose new ideas they want to see happen at KU.

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• Timeline of computing 1990–present,
• University of Kansas