Guest Grim Reaper Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with the creation of the World Wide Web, will be anointed a knight by Queen Elizabeth. Berners-Lee, 48, is being knighted in recognition of his "services to the global development of the Internet" for helping to invent the Web. Buckingham Palace announced the news yesterday as part of its 2004 New Year's Honours list. Berners-Lee is a British citizen who lives in the U.S. and serves as director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which he also helped found. He will be officially made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE). The rank of Knight Commander is the second most senior rank of the order of the British Empire. Berners-Lee issued a modest statement via the W3C, extending the honor to the Web community. He also reaffirmed his position that the Web be decentralized and free to all, both trademarks of the open-source development movement. "I accept this as an endorsement of the spirit of the Web; of building it in a decentralized way; of making best efforts to keep it open and fair; and of ensuring its fundamental technologies are available to all for broad use and innovation, and without having to pay licensing fees." The London-born Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England in 1976. There, he built his first computer with an M6800 processor, an old television and some tools. Berners-Lee sowed the seeds of the Internet in 1980 where, working as a software engineer for the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva (CERN), he wrote "Enquire," a program for storing information. This program formed the conceptual basis for the Web. In 1989, he proposed the Web as a global project designed to allow people to work together by combining their knowledge in a Web of hypertext documents. In October 1990, Berners-Lee wrote the first Web server, "httpd", and the first client, "World Wide Web," a what-you-see-is-what-you-get hypertext browser/editor which ran in the NeXTStep environment, according to his biography. He is credited with spearheading initial specifications of the Web's fundamental protocols, URI (define), HTTP (define), and a markup language for linking documents and Web pages, HTML (define). He later documented the Web's birth and evolution in the book "Weaving The Web," published in 1999. Internet News.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 A very clever man obviously, but I'm afraid that I find ALL these awards meaningless. It all seems very outdated to me, I daresay that this view will be a minority one, but I really do wince when I see some of the names that get so called honours for very spurious reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 A very clever man obviously, but I'm afraid that I find ALL these awards meaningless. It all seems very outdated to me, I daresay that this view will be a minority one, but I really do wince when I see some of the names that get so called honours for very spurious reasons.Well, I never thought it would happen - but I totally agree!To get an award just for doing a job of work - ie - milkman - is absolutely ridiculous! And as for all the pop stars etc.!!!!It makes the 'honour' meaningless! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 It's warming to see Berners-Lee be honoured. Of course, Elton Jon deserved it more. :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 Of course, Elton Jon deserved it more. :D :D :DYou have to be joking, what the hell for? Does everyone who makes caterwauling noises deserve a gong? If so I can wail as loudly and out of tune as anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 If so I can wail as loudly and out of tune as anyone.and usually do!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 If so I can wail as loudly and out of tune as anyone.and usually do!! :lol: Have you been spying on me in the shower? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 no, if i had been doing that i would be blind by now....the picture of you fully clothed is bad enough!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 no, if i had been doing that i would be blind by now....the picture of you fully clothed is bad enough!!Jealousy from the youngsters again, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted January 3, 2004 Report Share Posted January 3, 2004 andsome, your new photo makes you look even better! :) Or is it an old one taken when you were in your early 20's? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 3, 2004 Report Share Posted January 3, 2004 andsome, your new photo makes you look even better! :) Or is it an old one taken when you were in your early 20's? :PI am getting EVEN better looking aren'I ? The photo was taken 31-12-03. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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