THE new Community Learning Centre, Wimborne, is to be named the Berners-Lee Centre after the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners-Lee will be a patron of East Dorset Heritage Trust and Community Learning Centre at Allendale House, to be officially opened on Friday following a £465,000 renovation. He joins David Bellamy as president.
Mr Berners-Lee used to live in Colehill and worked in East Dorset before and after writing his famous program in Switzerland in 1980. It became the basis for the invention of the World Wide Web in 1990.
The director of the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, said: "East Dorset is special to me and Wimborne has many memories. The preservation of the natural and historic aspects of the area is something I feel is very important and so I am proud to be associated with East Dorset Heritage Trust."
David Bellamy, the Trust's first patron, will speak at the opening where he will be joined by East Dorset District Council chairman Cllr Ronald Daw.
Tim Berners-Lee has also recorded a special videotaped message for the occasion.
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