Who is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, continued
After graduating, Sir Tim Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at a telecommunications company in Dorset before joining D.G.Nash in Ferndown, Dorset, where he helped create type-setting software for printers.
Later as a contractor at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) he worked on a project based on the concept of hypertext to facilitate sharing information among researchers.
After leaving CERN, he went on to work at John Poole’s Image Computer Systems, giving him vital experience in computer networking.
In 1984 he returned to CERN as a fellow.
Berners-Lee married Nancy Carlson, an American computer programmer, in 1990 – she was also working in Switzerland, at the World Health Organization.
They had two children and divorced in 2011.
In 2014 he married Rosemary Leith, a Canadian internet and banking entrepreneur.
