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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. And typically there are some doubters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    as to the authenticity of the claim that Tim Berners-Lee is the "father" of the web. A blog entry here aparently has evidence that some of Tim's earlier efforts are actually stolen. I can't directly vouch for the authenticity, but there are some strange but compelling connections made.

  2. It's about bloody time... by Atrax · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... however - how many people out there in "the real world" know that the inventor of the web is a limey, pommy brit?

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    Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
  3. No offenc e/Not meaning to be flamebait... by g33ker · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... But this guy didn't really CREATE or FATHER the world wide web, thousands of people created it, and thousands of people will continue it for years to come. No-one can be attributed to be the creator of the net. What about ARPA-net and MIL-net, I thought they were american inventions?

  4. Re:Why 2004? by ezzzD55J · · Score: -1, Troll
    and we owe his as much thanks for that as for creating HTTP and HTML.

    I think HTTP and HTML are both ill-conceived disasters.. a messy yet simplistic protocol and an awful markup language.

  5. 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