No conflict here.  Berners-Lee is being credited with inventing the WWW, not
the Internet.  Two completely different things, as entangled as they might
be with each other.  And, Gore's role in the development of the Internet is
one of the few things I give him credit (and gratitude) for.


Mark Post

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Doug Fuerst
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Subject: Re: At last some real achiever being recognized by the monarch


Everyone know that Al Gore invented the Internet. When is he being
knighted, and do they have a spot in the UK for him to live?


At 01:40 PM 1/2/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>A news item from Computerworld:
>
>W3C Head Berners-Lee To Be Knighted
>
>He will be named a knight commander, Order of the British Empire, by
>Queen Elizabeth II for inventing the World Wide Web.
>
>http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,88727,00.html?nlid=PM
>
>
>Perhaps Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds next? Let us hope that some
>real achievers are knighted!

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