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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Named Greatest Briton

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the particularly-exemplary dept.

mOoZik writes "BBC News is reporting that Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, has been named the Greatest Briton of 2004. Berners-Lee had this to say about the honor: 'I am very proud to be British, it is great fun to be British and this award is just an amazing honour.'"

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  1. Re:And typically there are some doubters by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let me guess, he stole the idea of the www from an American? I predict that in 50 years time we will discover that it was - in fact - China that made the first powered flight, landed men on the moon and did virtually everything else first.

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  2. Re:Errant U's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yeah, them dumb Brits are allways adding extra vowels to words like instead of color they spell it colour, etc...

  3. Re:Errant U's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, they think they are the centre of the universe.

  4. "It's Great Fun to have bad teeth" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's great fun to have bad teeth! Pip pip!