Is Tim our "Patron Saint"?

[beano500]

Web inventor is 'Greatest Briton'

Tim Berners-Lee said the award was an 'amazing honour'
The inventor of the world wide web has been named Greatest Briton 2004 at a ceremony attended by Gordon Brown.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the web in the late 1980s, said he was just "in the right place at the right time".

Accepting his award and £25,000 at the Royal Courts of Justice, Sir Tim said it was an "amazing honour".


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[Plotloss]

Glad he has finally been recognised...

[FourWheelDrift]

I bet he wished he listened to his colleague when he said "so are you going to take a patent out on that new web thing of yours?"

[MilnerR]

FourWheelDrift said:

I bet he wished he listened to his colleague when he said "so are you going to take a patent out on that new web thing of yours?"

If he had have done it would be only be used by big companies and universities and the porn would be much harder to find

[Wacky Racer]

www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

[deckster]

Plotloss said:

Glad he has finally been recognised...

Agree with the sentiment, but wouldn't say 'finally'. He was knighted last year, for a start.