Posted on 01/27/2005 5:45:13 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
TIM Berners-Lee, the man who invented and then gave away the World Wide Web, was picked today as epitomising the Greatest of Britishness – a quality finance minister Gordon Brown said was unique.
His selfless act added to modesty and ingenuity were deemed by a panel of judges to make Berners-Lee the Greatest Briton of 2004 in the first of what organisers said they hoped would become an annual event. Mr Brown, who opened the glittering award ceremony, said Britons were a wonderful people and invoked the bulldog spirit of World War II leader Winston Churchill – which he said was as valid now as in 1940.
Advertisement: "The true greatness of Britons ... lies in the extraordinary qualities of our people," he told guests at a gala dinner, citing fairness, civic duty, openness, wisdom and integrity.
"These are qualities that are more important now than they have been for many decades," he added.
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EVERYBODY knows Al Gore invented the internet!!!
Silly Brits. Al Gore invented the Web!
BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.
Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?
GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Hey, look, he says he and his wife were the inspiration for Love Story, too...
He didn't invent the WWW.
It was invented here by Bell labs. It was originally used for research purposes and this man was NOT part of it.
Well, it sure wasn't Bill and Hillary...
Well, now I have no witty comment since algore has been used.
Well, now I have no witty comment since algore has been used.
you are partly right.......the "internet protocal" was invented by Bell Labs but the WWW which is different than the internet was indeed brought about by this guy in 1989 I believe......
I don't agree with Bradley's politics, he's as liberal as they come, but...
What Gore did to him in 2000 was a disgrace, from hinting at Bradley being complicit in racial profiling, to attacking him with lies (Bradley's most common response during debates was, "Thats not true, Al").
Gore may have even sabotaged Bradley in New Hampshire, the "car accidents" on the highways that prevented Bradley counties from getting to the polls, was very unusual.
Gore still makes me sick.
What???,ALGORE Stole the Internet from the British???? ;-)
How can he put the world wide web on the internet? Isn't the web the internet?
No, the "the web" runs on the internet. Think of what the Internet was like before Netscape Navigator, and that's what it would be like without Berners-Lee.
Not really, WWW piggybacks in a sense. The Internet without the WWW required command line style terminals - think of UNIX commands you've seen - text based in other words, but still useful and powerful, just not so user-friendly.
call Buckhead NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey I remember using MOSAIC when it first appeared - and Yahoo was still a few directories on Stanford U's servers !!
Thanks.
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