Sir Tim Berners-Lee Lauded For Web Efforts

crem_d_genes writes "The first Millenium Technology Prize to be given by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation has been awarded to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the 'Father of the Web', for his work in creating the hypertext program that would come to change the way in which scientists, and later the general public would access data over the internet. The rest is history."

Comments

Some kind of mistake?

[dolo666]

This must be some kind of mistake? Al Gore invented the web, because it says so right here: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" - Al Gore

Re:Some kind of mistake?

[Himring]

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" - Al Gore

Al Gore did not creat the Internet. He did, however, sleep at a holiday inn express....

question

[Anonymous Coward]

Does Tim Berners-Lee have his own website?

The missing step

[Mwongozi]

He won a million euros out of this.

1. Invent HTML
2. Wait 13 years
3. Profit!

jj

[Anonymous Coward]

Does Tim Berners-Lee have his own website?

No. He doesn't know HTML ;-)

IRC

[Cyuonut]

IMHO, they should have given the prize to Jarkko Oikarinen for creating IRC and totally screwing up my University studies.

Re:IRC

[Himring]

they should have given the prize to Jarkko Oikarinen for creating IRC and totally screwing up my University studies.

Or sid miers for civilization. That game put me in the hospital....

Re:whatever jokes you guys make out of it

[Mateito]

> Slashdot, don't get any mention at all.

Strip the prize then. He obvisouly doesn't deserve it.

How could this man be so short sited not to have predicted the existance of Slashdot 13 years ago?

I remember when back when I connected to fidonet through the 120baud modem on my apple IIc that I'd finish every newsboard post with "I'm only posting this here because Slashdot doesn't exist yet".

Where's _my_ fucking knighthood?

We need a new mod category

[gosand]

He did make what the "web" is today, the fact that you're reading this now is down to him, he did something which is far easier to do now (though still not!) in a time when this sort of concept couldn't be comprehended.

I think we need a new mod category: Incomprehensible.

Re:whatever jokes you guys make out of it

[MonTemplar]

No he didn't. Mosaic, Netscape, and Microsoft did.

Mosaic made the web browser.
Netscape mucked up the HTML specification.
Microsoft made the security holes.

Yep, they all played their part in making the World Wide Web what it is today. :-)

-MT.

Politicians and the Internet

[AtariAmarok]

George W Bush: "The Internet? What's that?"

Albert W Gore: "I created it"

John F Kerry: "I voted for it, and I voted against it"

Pat Buchanan: "If we stop illegal immigration, the spam and pop-up problem will be taken care of".