The World Wide Web is the brainchild of hacker, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, who is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the organization of various companies that create standards and recommendations to improve the 
web’s continued development. Berners-Lee is also a senior researcher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, holding the 3Com Founders Chair at that facility.
As a student at Oxford University, he was banned from using University computers when officials caught him hacking. Apparently the restriction didn’t dampen his desire, because, according to w3.org, "Whilst [at Oxford], he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television".
The birth of the WWW happened while Berners-Lee was working with CERN, a European nuclear research organization. After creating a hypertext prototype system to help researchers easily share and update information, he connected the hypertext idea with the Internet and, “ta-da! – the World Wide Web."
Berners-Lee is a member of Order of the British Empire (KBE), Royal Society (FRS), Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), and Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He also has been recognized by being awarded the Millennium Technology Prize.
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