| 'Father of Web' knighted | |
| Saturday, 17 July , 2004, 16:06 | |
| London: Queen Elizabeth II has knighted Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners-Lee received the honour in a ceremony at the Buckingham Palace. The knighthood was given for his services towards the global development of the internet. | |
"I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work, it's very heartening that this one actually did," Berners-Lee said afterwards.
Berners-Lee developed the web in the 1980s while he was working at an institute for particle physics in Geneva, Switzerland, to allow physicists to share information. He did not patent the web, wanting the greatest possible access to it.
He now heads the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
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