From a young age, Tim Berners-Lee was exposed to the field of computer science, which sparked his interest in that particular field, prompting his innovation of the Internet . Lee was born in 1955 in England to Mary Lee Woods and Conway Berners-Lee, the two computer scientists who were working on the first computer, the Ferranti Mark I, to hit the commercial market ( ). He describes his childhood as an academic environment, saying that his family "discussed imaginary numbers over breakfast". As a child, one of his favorite hobbies was tinkering with electronics. Lee often built his own fake computers, simply made of cardboard boxes ( ). As a teenager he was infatuated with science fiction and particularly obsessed with the story "Dial F for Frankenstein", in which a computer apparatus functions as a kind of human brain( ). His youthful hobbies gradually transformed into a passion for engineering, which Lee pursued at Oxford University in Cambridge. Having graduated with honors in physics from Queen's College, Oxford, his persistence in pursuing success has paid off. After this successful start, Lee worked for several high tech companies in England, and eventually stayed at CERN, a physics laboratory, where he was assigned the project of making software ( ). Lee's development of the new "Enquire" program was an obstacle for him. surpassed in the field of information technology. His project was prompted by the difficulty scientists had in exchanging information internationally, as many different versions of the text persisted. When Lee worked at the CERN laboratory, he met astute scientists from all over the world, who were collaborating on the work and... middle of paper... He created this World Wide Web browser, web server and software available as what he called “the internet” ( ). The Internet exploded with users around the world creating their own web servers and connecting them over the web (). These international users sent emails to Lee, giving him suggestions; Lee took advantage of the feedback and used their ideas to improve the Internet. The allure of the web caused it to progress rapidly, as within five years of the creation of the Internet, the number of users jumped from five hundred thousand to forty million. Thanks to the creation of such a fascinating instrument, Lee received numerous titles, including being recognized as one of the hundred greatest minds of the century by Time and being knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his “groundbreaking engineering innovation that was of global benefit for humanity” ( ).