Timothy John Berners- Lee was born on June 8, 1955, in London, England, during a time when the world stood on the cusp of a technological revolution. The 1950s were marked by thepost-war smash, the Cold War’s rising pressures, and the birth of ultramodern computing. His parents, Conway Berners- Lee and Mary Lee Woods, were both mathematicians who had worked on the Ferranti Mark I, the world’s first marketable electronic computer.