Tim Berners-Lee, who ignited the "Internet" .. is now knighted.
written on: July 20, 2004
This morning's newspapers carried a column about one gentleman Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. He has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II this Friday in London for his contributions to Technology.
He is a london-born scientist and the architect behind the Internet and internet technologies standards organization, the W3C.
The internet and "what it is?" need no introduction (at least to those of you who are already reading this weblog on the web). Since the time internet became feasible to be implemented, it has changed businesses worldwide, and is increasingly changing lives of people. All the credit, goes to this man, a non-celebrity, who never cashed in on his invention, and went on to set up the W3C (World wide web consortium), a non-profit industry standards-setting body.
He has sure done a lot to the people around the globe directly or indirectly changing the way we live.
Get a picture of him for your desktop wallpaper from my collection.
Read more about him here.
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