​​​​​​Born on June 8, 1955 in London, Berners-Lee was always engaged with  technology from his parents working at Ferranti, a British engineering company. With Ferranti, they created the Ferranti Mark I, the first commercial computer. After high school, he attended the prestigious University of Oxford.

“While at CERN, Berners-Lee developed a program for himself, called Enquire, that could store information in files that contained connections (“links”) both within and among separate files—a technique that became known as hypertext” (Britannica).