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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:Why 2004? by lahi · · Score: 0, Troll

    I strongly agree!

    Also, the insane construction which is URL, is so bad, the inventor should be spanked blue. I'm not sure it was Berners-Lee alone, though.

    -Lasse