1955 London [United Kingdom]

He is the father of the World Wide Web.

Faced with the need to distribute and exchange information about his research more effectively, Berners-Lee developed the fundamental ideas that structure the web. He and his group created HTML (HyperText Markup Language), HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), and the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for locating web objects.
Establishing the first communication between a client and a server using the HTTP protocol in December 1990.
In October 1994, he founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), based at MIT, to oversee and standardize the development of the technologies on which the web is based.