April 16, 2004

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