Have you ever wondered how the world wide web came to be? Or who invented it?

It was actually invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, who created a hypertext program whilst working at the Particle Physics Institute in Geneva in 1991, to organise, link and browse net pages.

From these small beginnings the world wide web was born.

He did not want to make money from his invention and so did not go on to privatise the program.

He currently heads up the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of technology in the USA , where he is now based as an academic.

Tim's achievements were recognised by Her Majesty the Queen, and he was knighted in 2003 for ‘services to the global development of the internet'.