After the end of hostilities, Berners-Lee was posted to Egypt where he encountered Maurice Kendall's book The Advanced Theory of Statistics, which greatly impressed him.

The last job was sorting and listing the 250,000 personnel cards to get all the service people onto ships for home.

He then worked on a punched card data processing system for the Plastics Division of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI).

They'd been the culmination of a measured progress from military radar work to academia to commerce, and the heroically named 'Pegasus’ computers had made Ferranti a lot of money.

[16] As well as statistics, Berners-Lee had acquired a knowledge of operations research (OR), and he showed himself to be good at devising worthwhile computer applications.

He directed the development of routines for the basic data processing techniques of sorting and updating files.

[16] A report that he produced in 1964 listed 31 Ferranti projects that used OR techniques in a wide variety of businesses.

As space in memory and backing store was a scarce and valuable resource in those days, he had also devised a procedure for compressing text, which in 1963 he sent to Bob Bemer at Univac.

He was involved in some of the earliest developments in the applications of computers in medicine, and his text compression ideas were taken up by an early electronic patient record system.

He received much encouragement when Hughes and Moe at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, predicted the effect of increasing the memory on their Univac Installation.