Full Name: Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee; Profession: British computer scientist, software engineer, and inventor best known as the creator of the World Wide Web; Nationality: British; Born: June 8, 1955; Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom; Generation: Baby Boomer (born during the post–World War II baby boom spanning 1946–1964); Chinese Zodiac: Wood Goat (1955, Year of the Goat, specifically the Wood Goat archetype); Zodiac Sign: Gemini (the Sun in Gemini for all births on June 8); Age in 2026: 71 years old on June 8, 2026, based on his 1955 birth year; Marital Status: Married to Canadian businesswoman and internet pioneer Rosemary Leith since 2014, previously married to programmer analyst Nancy Carlson from 1990 until their divorce in 2011; Children: Two children, a son Ben and a daughter Alice, from his first marriage; Description: A visionary architect of the information age, Berners-Lee conceived and implemented the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989 as a global hypertext system that joined the existing internet to a universal space of linked documents, writing the first web server (httpd) and browser/editor (WorldWideWeb), defining core standards such as HTML, HTTP, and URLs, and thereby making it possible for ordinary users and publishers worldwide to create, navigate, and share websites with unprecedented ease; he later founded and has long led the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT to steward open web standards, championing interoperability, openness, and user empowerment, and has been a prominent advocate for net neutrality, open data, and human rights online, warning against surveillance capitalism and centralized control of personal information while promoting initiatives like the Web Foundation and the Solid project to restore user data sovereignty; widely honored with a knighthood and numerous international awards, he is regarded as one of the most influential innovators in modern history, having fundamentally transformed global communication, knowledge access, education, commerce, and social interaction by turning the web into a ubiquitous, democratizing platform that connects billions of people, ideas, and cultures around the world; Cause of Death: Not applicable – he is still living with no recorded cause of death as of 2026.