06/08/1955 AD born
Timothy John Berners-Lee was born to mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019).
His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.
His paternal grandmother was a Canadian woman from Winnipeg.
He has three younger siblings; his brother, Mike, is a professor of ecology and climate change management. Berners-Lee attended Sheen Mount Primary School, then attended the Emanuel School (a direct grant grammar school at the time) from 1969 to 1973.
A keen trainspotter as a child, he learnt about electronics from tinkering with a model railway.
