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That's Sir Tim to You
andrew_j_w writes "British born creator of the web Tim Berners-Lee has finally received his Knighthood from the Queen. It's nice to a pioneer, who certainly not a household name, get such a high honour from the establishment. Hopefully more people will now recognise the great work he did!"
But will he say "ni!"?
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Whats next? Thats SIR Bill Gates to you!
"He is now working on an idea called the "semantic web", which is about giving more meaning to what is on the web."
I guess Slashdot might be described as anti-semantic.
Braummph-Pumph Thanks! I'll be here all week
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I thought Al Gore created the internet/web?! :-P
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He will say NI all the way to the forrest where he must cut down the largest imaginable tree with...
(wait for it)
A HERRING!!!!
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
He's the guy whose weapon was the slide rule, right?
(Damn--what's a good Web designer combat weapon?)
From the artilec in the parent post...
Instead of acclaimed artists, musicians, writers, scientists, community volunteers and entrepreneurs taking the title Sir or Dame, they would become Companions of Honour.
Who would want to be called a 'Companion of Honour'? It sounds like a fancy name for a pricy hooker.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Al Gore has challenged Sir Tim to a joust to decide who is the true inventor if the internet.
"Verily I do declare tis I am the inventor of ye internet" said Al as he went looking on ebay for jousting poles and suits of armour.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I thought this was funny, slightly paranoid?
Email is safe unless it contains programs. (Data and documents are fine, programs are not). If you send me a program, I will not run it, as it could damage my system and could be a virus. Note: Documents for Microsoft word, Excel, and possibly other Office programs tend to execute programs (scripts) in what you would expect to be harmless documents. These can expose my machine to viruses, because these programs do not (it seems) prevent scripts from running within a document when it received by email. Please do not send me Microsoft Office documents. If you are sending text, please send it as plain text or HTML. If you use your favorite word process, slide tool, etc, and send it in that program's format, then you are forcing me install proprietary software on whatever machine I read them on. . If your email is sent from Microsoft Outlook, and contains an attachment, I will be more likely to discard it as I understand that a famous series of viruses in 2001 resulted from Outlook's tendency to execute scripts in email, and used up a huge amount of my and my colleague's time.
I think it should just say if you've been recently exposed to any Microsoft product, do not email me.
Of all the Monty Python movies, that is the only exchange that has ever annoyed the hell out of me. I don't know why.
-tim
Find a way to distribute even more porn?
For a moment, I thought it was our Timothy. Phew. What a relief ;)
Maybe he could now invent the verb.
"Thank you, Tim. Globalization had been stagnating a bit, but thanks to you we are now moving ahead triple-time. A jolly good show."
"You've done more to destroy the middle class than any man in the last 50 years."
"Here is a piece of paper that shows our gratitude to you."
> It's nice to a pioneer, who certainly not a household name,
> get such a high honour from the establishment.
Er..."Some people have a way with words. Others not have way." - Steve Martin.
But the man who invented duct tape lives in obscurity. The world is filled with insensitive clods.
alright! it's about time the guy who created spiderman get some credit! what's that?