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Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web. He was born in London in 1955 and obtained a degree in physics in 1976 from Oxford University. Both his parents had been involved in the programming of the Ferranti Mark I computer in the 1950s.
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Plessey was a large British telecommunications company based in Poole in England. It was taken over by GEC and Siemens in 1989.
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D.G. Nash was a small company run by Denis Nash and John Poole.
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The name “Enquire” came from a popular Victorian book called Enquire Within Upon Everything which was originally published in 1850.
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Berners-Lee T (2000) Weaving the web. Collins Book, San Francisco
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O’Regan, G. (2013). Tim Berners-Lee. In: Giants of Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_9
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