Stinkysteve
07-19-2004, 10:01 AM
And NO! It's not Al Gore..
Story here:
http://www.internetweek.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=23901854
Call Him 'Sir'...Inventor Of The Web Knighted
By TechWeb News
Tim Berners-Lee was knighted by the Queen of England Friday, the latest in a series of honors for the man credited with inventing the Web.
Queen Elizabeth II dubbed Berners-Lee a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire (KBE), in a ceremony mid-day in London. The rank is the second highest of the Order of the British Empire honors.
Berners-Lee, 49, is a British citizen who now lives in the United States, and was knighted for "his services to the global development of the Internet," according to a statement from Buckingham Palace.
Now the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards-setting body, in the early 1990s, Berners-Lee coined the term "World Wide Web," wrote the first Web server and client software, and authored the first version of HTML, the markup language used to create and format Web pages. At the time, he was working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in Geneva.
"I am humbled by this great honor," said the new Sir Timothy in a statement. "The Web came about through an ongoing collaboration with my fellow inventors and developers worldwide. Everyone in the Internet community should be recognized by this honor."
Earlier this year, Berners-Lee was awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18901565 in Helsinki. The cash prize, given by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation, was worth 1 million euros ($1.2 million).
Story here:
http://www.internetweek.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=23901854
Call Him 'Sir'...Inventor Of The Web Knighted
By TechWeb News
Tim Berners-Lee was knighted by the Queen of England Friday, the latest in a series of honors for the man credited with inventing the Web.
Queen Elizabeth II dubbed Berners-Lee a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire (KBE), in a ceremony mid-day in London. The rank is the second highest of the Order of the British Empire honors.
Berners-Lee, 49, is a British citizen who now lives in the United States, and was knighted for "his services to the global development of the Internet," according to a statement from Buckingham Palace.
Now the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards-setting body, in the early 1990s, Berners-Lee coined the term "World Wide Web," wrote the first Web server and client software, and authored the first version of HTML, the markup language used to create and format Web pages. At the time, he was working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in Geneva.
"I am humbled by this great honor," said the new Sir Timothy in a statement. "The Web came about through an ongoing collaboration with my fellow inventors and developers worldwide. Everyone in the Internet community should be recognized by this honor."
Earlier this year, Berners-Lee was awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18901565 in Helsinki. The cash prize, given by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation, was worth 1 million euros ($1.2 million).