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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Lauded For Web Efforts

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gopher-it dept.

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."

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  1. Some kind of mistake? by dolo666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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

    1. Re:Some kind of mistake? by Himring · · Score: 3, Funny

      "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....

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  2. question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does Tim Berners-Lee have his own website?

  3. The missing step by Mwongozi · · Score: 5, Funny
    He won a million euros out of this.
    1. Invent HTML
    2. Wait 13 years
    3. Profit!
  4. jj by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does Tim Berners-Lee have his own website?

    No. He doesn't know HTML ;-)

  5. IRC by Cyuonut · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  6. Re:whatever jokes you guys make out of it by Mateito · · Score: 5, Funny

    > 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?

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  7. We need a new mod category by gosand · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

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  8. Re:whatever jokes you guys make out of it by MonTemplar · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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