Congratulations Tim! Everyone on the Net should PayPal him a HUGE thank you!
 

World Wide Web Inventor Receives Technology Prize

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ESPOO, Finland - The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize.

The award, a euro1 million cash prize, equivalent to $1.2 million, is among the largest of its kind, and was awarded for the first time. It was established in 2002 and backed by the Finnish government.

Berners-Lee is recognized as the creator of the World Wide Web while working for the CERN Laboratory in the early 1990s, the European center for nuclear research near Geneva, Switzerland.

His graphical point-and-click browser, "WorldWideWeb," was the first featuring the core ideas included in today's Web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, and Mozilla.

The prize committee on Thursday said Berners-Lee's contribution strongly embodied the spirit of the award.

Pekka Tarjanne, chairman of the eight-member prize committee, underlined the importance of Berner-Lee's decision to never strive to commercialize or patent his contributions to the Internet technologies he developed.

The prize is administered by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation, an independent fund supported by the Finnish government and a number of Finnish companies and organizations. Future prizes will be awarded every two years.

This year, 74 nominations were received for the award. Universities, research institutes, and national scientific academies are eligible to nominate prize winners.

Berners-Lee, who is originally from Britain, continues to work at the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

An award ceremony will be held June 15 in Helsinki.

That is bullshit, we all know that KRL invented the World Wide Web, so you should claim your million of euros :glugglug

Wonder how long until he gets a school named after him?

love, not war. love.

I though Al Gore invented the web...or was that the intraweb?

Just thank goodness he didn't try to do an Acacia patent on it.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

It's never too late for that things :eek7

Without him a lot of us would be in the street :)

His paypal addy : [email protected]

a year ago I replied in a gfy thread that www was invented at CERN and almost all of them were shouting at me... fags

Without him I would have to get a real job:(

Al Gore?

yeah, this guy is a god!

Hey, Thats what I heard as well:1orglaugh

For all the Al Gore jokes that I'm sure will follow (or are posted above me). Al Gore never claimed he invented the internet. He said he was responsible for the funding with lead to the development of the public www, which is true. Of coarse the right wind twisted his words around to make him look bad, big shock there.

I repeat : PAYPAL ADDY =

[email protected]

I wonder how it feels to know your creation truly changed the world.

What is this "inter-web" you all speak off?

So he's the one I can thank for all the spam I get?

he just got awarded $1 million for it... don't you think that's enough for now??? :glugglug

What he said.

Al Gore -- "I took the initiative in creating the internet."

I love him!

He should build a site with his biography and a huge paypal donate button. :Graucho

does he take epassporte ?

Congrats:thumbsup

Except for that prize, did he make any money at all from the web? I mean did he start a search engine or store or anything?
It's kind of sad that the guy who invented the web didn't make the kind of money that the amazons, ebays and googles did

Yeah I heard the same thing

Congrats tim:thumbsup

How long before the Republicans give him a public execution for causing the downfall of society and the spread of porn?

doubtful..

Yeah, he had some great ideas and made a nice job. :thumbsup

From what I've read he's not materialistic and felt he was providing a great idea for all mankind to benefit from.

We need more people with that kind of attitude.

Plus he could get a job anywhere he wants.

Imagine his resume:

PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Invented the World Wide Web

"In 1994 he founded World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 2003, the organization decided that all standards must contain royalty-free technology, so they can be easily adopted by anyone"

I still wonder how Acacia plans to get standardization for their patents. They sure as hell won't get it from the W3C

Strange how no-one really knows / cares about this guy (until now).. you'd think he'd be famous.. but evidently not

#1 he is famous in the UK


#2 I am seriously not worthy. I owe so much in my life to him.

Tim Berners-Lee .. Gwan my son .. :thumbsup

:thumbsup

He did a nice job, so I thank him

He did great job!
I also wonder why there hasn´t been much about him earlier.

He just got 1.2mil.. I'm not paypaling him shit. :1orglaugh

Thank you very much Sir!

damn, props to him.

me neither