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That's Sir Tim to You

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the peer-to-peer-networking dept.

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!"

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  1. A strange move by Albanach · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Isn't it a little strange that someone who pioneered the web - free of class distinctions, where every IP address and domain name ranks equal - would choose to take an honour from the monarch and with it endorse the class system?

    It's entirely reasonable that the creator of the web should be recognised by society, but the British Honours system is recognition by the establishment, not by society. Further to that, holding the second highest rank in the Order of the British Empire seems a lot less noble when we consider the persecution under which many countries within the empire existed.

    Just my 2p worth. Others may wish to stand up for the system. Personally I think it sucks.

  2. Re:Wait... by Yosi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I tell people I work for the inventor of the Web, their first response is always,

    ``Didn't Al Gore invent that?''

    Then I have to go into a long tedious explanation about how Al Gore invented the Intenet, and the Web is only one application of it.

    I personally would prefer that Tim would keep on going on these long trips to get awards. Getting things done on Cwm without direction from Tim on what Cwm should actually do is getting hard. I've been spending more time at work on slashdot as result.

  3. TBL's Computer by CdBee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To anyone with an interest in the birth of the web, one of the CERN NeXT Cubes used by Lee can be viewed in the Science Museum in London.

    Anyone familiar with the NeXT machine and its current Mac descendents will doubtless find it quite an interesting exhibit.

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    I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
  4. Nominate The Bell Labs Team by defsdoor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was thinking about honours the other day - before the government raised their desire to rename them all.

    I was thinking that the orignal Bell Labs guys should be nominated - after all where would we all be today if it wasn't for Ritchie, Thompson, Korn etc... ?

    We all are truly standing on the shoulders of giants.