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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. Re:Some kind of mistake? by MonTemplar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No offence, but that gag has been round the block waaay too many times to qualify for a +1 Funny.

    Of course, once Star Wars Ep3 arrives, we'll have to endure another round of Natalie Portman + Hot Grits with every other post... :-)

    -MT.

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    -MT.