Sir Tim wins a nice prize - nice guys sometimes finish first!
From
BBC News:
bq.
New honour for the web's inventor
The inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has won a prestigious award which comes with a prize bag of one million euros (£671,000).
bq. The "Father of the Web" was named as the first winner of the Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.
bq. In 1991, he came up with a system to organise, link and browse net pages which revolutionised the internet.
bq. The British scientist was knighted for his pioneering work in 2003.
This could not be happening to a nicer person. I remember someone coming into a coffeehouse I used to frequent saying that they had stumbled into this _very_ interesitng bit of software
Posted by DaveH at April 16, 2004 1:28 AM