So while everybody else was playing games on the hard top, we would on the playground walk around the edge just talking about things and occasionally winding electromagnets and things in the corners of the field. He read about all kinds of things including dinosaurs and that sort of thing, physics and chemistry.
My good friend all the way through that school was Nicholas Barton who read at an early age, and was also interested in science and read a lot more than I did and taught me a lot. So I went to elementary school at County Primary school in East Chine. I was brought up as the eldest of four in a family where mathematics not only occurred everywhere, but was seen to be useful and fun wherever it occurred. My parents were both mathematicians by training and by inclination. Really that’s the sort of question which demands two weeks of thought and an essay! So historically, I was born in London, England. So if I could ask some questions about your childhood and early schooling, and also any philosophical influences on you, either by works of literature or world events that perhaps might have had a hand in the democratic nature of the web. Timothy Berners-Lee, an oral history conducted in 2004 by Robert Colburn, IEEE History Center, Piscataway, NJ, USA.Įducation intellectual and technological influences It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Request for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the IEEE History Center Oral History Program, IEEE History Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA or It should include identification of the specific passages to be quoted, anticipated use of the passages, and identification of the user. No part of the manuscript may be quoted for publication without the written permission of the Director of IEEE History Center. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to the IEEE History Center. This manuscript is being made available for research purposes only. Interview # 439 for the IEEE History Center, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.Ĭopyright Statement TIM BERNERS-LEE: An Interview Conducted by Robert Colburn, IEEE History Center, 9 April 2004 Much of the interview focuses on the beginning and growth of the Internet and Berners-Lee’s vision of its future.Ībout the Interview He attended Oxford University from 1973 to 1976 before going to work for Plessy Electronics in Poole, England and later DG National where he laid their computer image systems.
He began experimenting with the use of transistors soon after its arrival on the consumer market and constructed two rudimentary computers in his home from spare parts and broken television sets in the 1970’s. He was interested in electricity and electronics even in elementary school. Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, England to parents who were both mathematicians.
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