[luau] Knighthood for 'father of the Web'

[Taylor Cody L. Contr 502 AOS/PETS]

cnn:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/31/britain.honors.webman/index.html

Knighthood for 'father of the Web'
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The computer wizard dubbed the "father of the World
Wide Web" is to receive a knighthood for services to the Internet. 

..Tim Berners-Lee invented the information superhighway known as the Web,
which allows anyone with a computer and browser to use the Internet.
Famously, he created it in his spare time, and gave it away for free... 


...He wrote the program which would later become the Web for his own private
use while working at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near
Geneva in 1991. 

It initially received a luke-warm reception -- one of his superiors wrote it
was "vague but exciting" -- but Sir Tim went on to write the first Web
browser and Web server, both of which he gave away on the Internet in 1991,
and the Web was born. 

While other Internet pioneers went on to become multi-millionaires, he
insisted that his creation should be free and globally available, and has
fought to ensure the Web was never privately owned... 


slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/31/0047251.shtml?tid=126&tid=95
bbc:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3357073.stm