Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web, something
we all use on the daily. He was born on June 8, 1955 and is still
alive today. Both of Berners-Lee's parents worked on the first
commercial computer, and he grew up to be a software engineer. He
worked for Plessy Communications and CERN
before creating the World Wide Web and HTML, the computer language
used to build this site. In 2004, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth
II, officially changing his title to Sir Tim Berners-Lee
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Berners-Lee
https://webfoundation.org/about/sir-tim-berners-lee/
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791, and he died on
October 18, 1871. Charles Babbage is credited with concieving
the first ever digital computer. He made an automatic
calculator as well and established the postal system. Babbage's
work was pretty much forgotten after he died, until his journals
were found in 1937.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Babbage
https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/who-was-charles-babbage
https://www.biography.com/inventors/charles-babbage