Do not pass this point, those you do not want OMNI!
Tutt tutt tutt boys, no trying to re-write history please....
Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. He spent two years with Plessey Telecommunications Ltd a major UK Telecom equipment manufacturer, working on distributed transaction systems, message relay, and bar code technology.
In 1978 Tim left Plessey to join D.G Nash Ltd, where he wrote among other things typesetting software for intelligent printers, a multitasking operating system, and a generic macro expander.
A year and a half spent as an independent consultant included a six month stint as consultant software engineer at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Whilst there, he wrote for his own private use his first program for storing information including using random associations. Named "Enquire", and never published, this program formed the conceptual basis for the future development of the World Wide Web.
Now see what happens when two fine European countries - The UK and Switzerland - combine their efforts!

MF
Now shall we talk about who invented the computer....?