Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:56:17 -0500 From: Jean Armour Polly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Sir Berners-Lee X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web's inventor to be knighted
By Frank Barnako , CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 9:16 AM ET Dec. 31, 2003
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Tim Berners-Lee will become a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire for his work inventing the World Wide Web. Announcement of the honor for the British citizen who lives in the United States was made Wednesday by Buckingham Palace.
"This applies to the whole Web development community, and to the inventors and developers of the Internet, whose work made the Web possible," the 48-year-old said in a statement. "I accept this as an endorsement of the spirit of the Web ...of making best efforts to ensure its fundamental technologies are available to all."
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