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Web inventor voted top Briton
news.com.au ^ | 28 January 2005 | Jeremy Lovell

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: algore; bernerslee; internet; invention; poms; www
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To: 1066AD

And pine and elm and gopher.


21 posted on 01/27/2005 7:14:23 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Aussie Dasher

The Britons? Who are the Britons?

22 posted on 01/27/2005 7:16:31 PM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie because they have to)
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To: Tribune7

And when newsgroups weren't trashed out by crossposting etc !


23 posted on 01/27/2005 7:34:51 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: Aussie Dasher

Who knew---all this time, Gore was British?!


24 posted on 01/27/2005 7:39:09 PM PST by I'm ALL Right! (Welcome to my addiction.)
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To: I'm ALL Right!
I'd always thought him somewhat of a crossbreed...a total mongrel!
25 posted on 01/27/2005 7:42:33 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (Stop Hillary - PEGGY NOONAN '08)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Al Gore isn't going to like it that somebody else is taking credit for his invention.


26 posted on 01/27/2005 8:08:06 PM PST by sweetliberty
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To: 1066AD
And when newsgroups weren't trashed out by crossposting etc !

I can't remember the last time I used Usenet.

27 posted on 01/27/2005 8:13:55 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7

Yes, been a long time here too. Google hosts them now.


28 posted on 01/27/2005 8:17:30 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: Tribune7

Thanks for the link.


29 posted on 01/27/2005 8:23:06 PM PST by cornelis
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To: sweetliberty

AS much as he doesn't like somebody else being President?


30 posted on 01/27/2005 8:26:15 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (Stop Hillary - PEGGY NOONAN '08)
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"AS much as he doesn't like somebody else being President?"

Well, that'd be a toss up.

31 posted on 01/27/2005 8:55:33 PM PST by sweetliberty
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