"Father of the Web" gets Knighthood

Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded a knighthood in today's New Year's honours
list.

More details at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3357073.stm

As a sidenote, I was pleasantly surprised to notice he and I went to the
same school!

Also, I'Il just take this chance, if I can to wish you all a Happy New Year!


Regards
Sunil

> Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded a knighthood in today's New Year's honours
> list.

Someone worthy for a change :-)

> Also, I'Il just take this chance, if I can to wish you all a Happy New Year!

Same to you too :-)

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Colin Wilson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded a knighthood in today's New Year's honours
>> list.
>
> Someone worthy for a change :-)

Just wish he'd have listened more.
There were (IIRC) early arguments for <img src=... to be some form of
<embed> tag, to allow inclusion of other media, which was dismissed.

A number of other things would have been nice.
Support for multiple submit tags in <form> entries, and an image
tag supporting "onmouseover".

I wonder if any script support would have been a good idea.
Forth?

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:05:38 -0000, Colin Wilson <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>> Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded a knighthood in today's New Year's honours
>> list.
>
>Someone worthy for a change :-)
Maybe I don't know but if would have been much better if all that
usless bloody rugby lot had not been awarded gongs what does playing
rugby football or any other sport do for the country .
Grant .

"Sunil Sood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bsta61$15ann$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded a knighthood in today's New Year's
honours
> list.
>
> More details at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3357073.stm
>


Shocking! Everyone knows it was BT who invented hyperlinking and Microsoft
who invented the internet.

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:52:42 -0000, "Sunil Sood"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded a knighthood in today's New Year's honours
>list.

Yes, how terribly British to give him a ceremony and a title instead
of a) the facilities to create the system (Switzerland) or b)
subsequently exploit and manage it (US). Call me cynical but
I think it typifies our national attitude to creativity.

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On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:22:57 +0000, King Queen
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:52:42 -0000, "Sunil Sood"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded a knighthood in today's New Year's honours
>>list.
>
>Yes, how terribly British to give him a ceremony and a title instead
>of a) the facilities to create the system (Switzerland) or b)
>subsequently exploit and manage it (US). Call me cynical but
>I think it typifies our national attitude to creativity.

But didn't we invent the BetaMax video system that revolutionised the
world (or something)

Jasper

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:22:57 +0000, King Queen wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:52:42 -0000, "Sunil Sood"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded a knighthood in today's New Year's honours
>>list.
>
> Yes, how terribly British to give him a ceremony and a title instead
> of a) the facilities to create the system (Switzerland)

Who on earth do you think pays for CERN? Would that not be the
U.K. government in part with other governments. If the U.K.
government did not pay towards CERN he would not have been their.

> or b) subsequently exploit and manage it (US). Call me cynical but
> I think it typifies our national attitude to creativity.

The thing about the WWW that made it successful was firstly that it
was simple in nature, secondly that it was available for free. The
third thing was the Mosaic web browser.

It was by no means the first hypertext system. However the previous
variants where complex and hard to learn, and very expensive to
buy.

JAB.

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