Question

Tim Berners-Lee (1) is/are a world famous scientist and a great inventor. But (2) are youknowing/do you know what he invented?Tim (3) was/is born in London in 1955. His parents (4) was/were both mathematicians and computer scientists. When he was a boy, his hobby was electronics. He liked (5) play/playing with different gadgets. He went to Emanuel School and then (6) was studying/studied physics at Oxford University from 1973 to 1976.Tim (7) worked/was working at a large scientific laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, when he (8) was inventing/invented the World Wide Web. He (9) built/were building the first Web browser and server in 1990. In 1991, he (10) created/create the first website. The first web page address was http://info.cern. ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which had information about the WWW project.The World Wide Web (11) didn’t make/wasn’t making Tim rich. He gave his inven­tion to the world so everyone can use it for free. He now (12) work/works at Massa­chusetts Institute of Technology in the USA and at the University of Southampton in the UK. He and his family (13) live/are livingin America. Tim (14) has/is having many awards and prizes for his work. In 1999, Time magazine included him in its list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century. Queen Elizabeth II (15) was giving/gavehim a knighthood in 1994, so he is now Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He (16) is coming/camefirst in a list of the top living cleverest people in 2007. So next time you look at a website, remember to thank Tim Berners-Lee!

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Tim Berners-Lee is a world famous scientist and a great inventor. But do you know what he invented? Tim was born in London in 1955. His parents were both mathematicians and computer scientists. When he was a boy, his hobby was electronics. He liked playing with different gadgets. He went to Emanuel School and then studied physics at Oxford University from 1973 to 1976.Tim was working at a large scientific laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, when he invented the World Wide Web. He built the first Web browser and server in 1990. In 1991, he created the first website. The first web page address was http://info.cern. ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which had information about the WWW project.The World Wide Web didn’t make Tim rich. He gave his inven­tion to the world so everyone can use it for free. He now works at Massa­chusetts Institute of Technology in the USA and at the University of Southampton in the UK. He and his family live in America. Tim has many awards and prizes for his work. In 1999, Time magazine included him in its list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century. Queen Elizabeth II gave him a knighthood in 1994, so he is now Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He came first in a list of the top living cleverest people in 2007. So next time you look at a website, remember to thank Tim Berners-Lee!