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Tim Berners-Lee to be knighted
« on: January 05, 2004, 07:18:21 PM »
http://www.w3.org/2003/12/timbl_knighted

Now here's a guy who really changed the world! biggrin.gif
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Tim Berners-Lee to be knighted
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2004, 12:29:19 AM »
Interestingly enough, he invented the WWW on one of these:



Steve Jobs' old company and the operating system from which sprung OS X...

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I should be sleeping, but I went on to find some relevant links:

From the man himself.

A good article at Silicon.com
« Last Edit: January 06, 2004, 12:42:46 AM by kps »

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Tim Berners-Lee to be knighted
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2004, 08:34:10 AM »
My local Library has this. smile.gif

Nerds 2.0.1

http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/index.html

It shows his part. Very well done. smile.gif
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