Answer — Exercise 5
07 - World culture - The information age·Cutting Edge Elementary - Student's Book
Question
Go online to find out more about each person's early life (where / when born, education, etc.) and why he / she is important.
Answer
- Tim Berners-Lee: Born in 1955 in London, UK. Studied physics at Oxford. Inventor of the World Wide Web.
- Bill Gates: Born in 1955 in Seattle, USA. Studied at Harvard but left to found Microsoft.
- Jimmy Wales: Born in 1966 in Alabama, USA. Studied at Auburn University. Co-founder of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.
- Sergey Brin: Born in 1973 in Moscow, Russia. PhD at Stanford University. Co-founder of Google.
- Ashley Qualls: Born in 1990 in Michigan, USA. Founder of the website whateverlife.com.