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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Named Greatest Briton
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.'"
What has he done for us LATELY?
That was classic intercourse!
...welcome our new British internet-inventing overlords.
What? What do you mean "it was Al Gore"?
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, has been named the Greatest Briton of 2004
Prince Harry was taken out of the running for Greatest Briton recently for some reason...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Thats odd as one of the points Sir Tim Berners-Lee was making with all the British papers who were asking him how rich he would be if he had patented "his" idea, was it was not his idea, it was just using things already invented together, and tweaking it for sharing. He himself seems to acknowledge the simple principle that science and technology is a building process off the works of our forefathers in our fields.
He is very humble about it as he does not see it as a pure invention, the press on the other hand just can't be bothered to learn. The web needs an inventor. Did Edison invent the light bulb?
Something in the human condition needs this widget here was made by inventor Goosebury. Why I don't know, maybe we understand ideas better when we have a psychology to project the idea onto.
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said: "I drank what?" - Chris Knight (Val Kilmer)- Real Genius
At the same awards ceremony, Jane Tomlinson (who suffers with a terminal cancer) was awarded "Greatest British Campaigner". I think that is just a little bit more significant. She has raised £1,150,000 (~USD$2,170,970) for Cancer Research.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/ 4215561.stm
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
I don't think you understand that the world wide web is not the same thing as the internet.
WWW != NET
The guy spells 'honor' with a 'u'??
That's unamerican!
It's not errant, it's a quote! Sir Tim was knighted by the Queen for a European invention and this has been reported on by the British Broadcasting Corporation. It's nice that you chaps across the Pond care enough to relay this, and even nicer when we're properly quoted - don't spoil it with ignorance now!
"greatest Briton"?
Hmmm. I'm British. I wonder what my ranking is?
14,223,921st greatest Briton?
Ho HO! Indeed! And what a rollicking good time being human as well! Its a smashing good time up here at the top of the food-chain!
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Apparently the French landed there in the 1930s. They kept it quiet, never being a group to blow their own horn, and then the Americans wanted footage to "prove" they had gone to the moon, the French were all to happy to provide it (which was then doctored to include a US flag instead) due to their gratitude for America's contribution to WW2.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
don't spoil it with ignorance now
Shouldn't that be "ignourance".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 434963,00.html
... further downIt's not like it's pre-Christian Polynesia and you get to boink nubile exotic Island girls all day long and eat sweet tree-melons while basking on the beach.
You've obviously not been to Butlin's Holiday Camp in Bognor Regis then - mind you, there it's Essex girls and tinned pineapple.
Pip! pip!
AT&ROFLMAO
OK, I did some searching for the Neowin article on this, and can just as well post it here too. ;-)
It's a bunch of fun historical documents.
- Screenshot of Tim-Berner Lee's web browser/editor gizmo (apparently two apps in one suite, kinda like Mozilla?)
- Web page (from 1992) describing a very early version of HTML
- Description of the web (from 1992)*
- The original WWW proposal from 1989**
- History of the web
* = It tells you why the WWW was made... "Tim decided that high energy physics needed a networked hypertext system and CERN was an ideal site for the development of wide-area hypertext ideas"
** = excerpt: "Note that the only name I had for it at this time was "Mesh" -- I decided on "World Wide Web" when writing the code in 1990."
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Why the hell was that modded "interesting", if not that for someone on /. knows who Schopenhauer is - well, no proof even for that since it's a fortune citing - ?
I, for one, found it interesting that another slashdotter might allude to the silliness of national pride, since, after all, it is taking pride in other people's accomplishments. Personally, I keep my national pride to a miniumum, since I'm no more responsible for the great things America has done than the awful things. Same goes for racial pride. I am not responsible for the great things others have done, nor am I responsible for slavery just because I'm white. I think people should be as proud as their skin color as they are of their hair color. Likewise, there should be no shame.
No I am not. The people who think he stole part of the web concept from others use the word stole in the wrong way. And I framed my comment more to get a discussion going on actually what does invent mean.
I find the best inventors and scientists recognise the idea that we do stand on the ideas from society and our peers.
Newton's "standing on the back of giants..." quote and all.
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said: "I drank what?" - Chris Knight (Val Kilmer)- Real Genius
Can't understand how anybody who still refuses to use the metric system can be so upset about an extra U...
(This is slashdot. Nobody can spell anyway. So if you want to start a flamewar you should rely on trusted methods like the metric system.)
People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this.
I'm surprised no-one from the States has said anything about the guy's teeth. From Austin Powers to the Simpsons' 'Big Book Of British Smiles', that's all we ever get to hear. British=Bad F*ckin' Teeth.
Listen, you shiny-gobbed sons of bitches, these are Darwinian survival aids. If we got into a fight and I bit you with these babies, you'd bleed to death in thirty seconds or get a dose of gangrene and end up taking your fingers home in a bag.
Right. I'm off to throw bricks at a dentist. What ho, my lily-white arse.
Moran.
I was at a friend's house over the holidays and I noticed that he had received the distinction of being the World's Greatest Dad! Top that, Sir Tim!
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
No. That's why Edison was forced to go into partnership with Joseph Swan who beat him to it, forming the Swan Edison United Electric Light Co. (Ediswan). After Edison bought Swan out he re-wrote history to take the credit, as he normally did with other people's inventions.
There's not much Edison himself did invent other than FUD and the invention-as-slavery, your-thoughts-belong-to-us conditions which prevail to this day in the IP clauses of large companies.
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