The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK's most prestigious honours.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins an elite group who have received the honour from the Queen for exceptional contributions in arts, sciences and other areas.

The British academic invented the web's address system and layout in Switzerland in 1991, ultimately revolutionising global communication.

Previously, he was named Greatest Briton at a ceremony in 2004.

Information sharing

Sir Tim was given the honour along with the President of the Royal Society, Lord Rees of Ludlow, and the Rt Rev Lord Eames, ex-Anglican Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh.

In 1991, Sir Tim came up with a system to organise, link and browse pages on the net.

He created his hypertext program while he was at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva The code he crafted made it far easier for scientists to share their research and information across a fledgling computer network.

He is now director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, where he is based as an academic.

The Order of Merit is in the Queen's personal gift, meaning that ministerial advice is not needed.

It is restricted to 24 living members, who are entitled to use the initials OM after their name.

Past recipients have included Florence Nightingale, Sir Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell, Graham Greene, Sir Edward Elgar, Mother Teresa and Baroness Thatcher.

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Web inventor gets Queen's honour

About time!




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Cool acronym.


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The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK's most prestigious honours.

I Thought that was Al Gore ;)

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK's most prestigious honours.

I Thought that was Al Gore ;)

I was going to make that joke! :) What is the etymology of that joke, anyway? :)

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The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK's most prestigious honours.

I Thought that was Al Gore ;)

I was going to make that joke! :) What is the etymology of that joke, anyway? :)

Gore said he invented the internet in an article or interview/speech/press conference. Years ago.



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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK's most prestigious honours.

I Thought that was Al Gore ;)

I was going to make that joke! :) What is the etymology of that joke, anyway? :)

Gore said he invented the internet in an article or interview/speech/press conference. Years ago.

The joke is years old, but I do not recall having seen/read that article/interview/speech/press conference. :)

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Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes.

The joke is years old, but I do not recall having seen/read that article/interview/speech/press conference. :)

Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition

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The joke is years old, but I do not recall having seen/read that article/interview/speech/press conference. :)

Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition

Nice find!

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.

Next question is, where was he during the predecessors to the Internet, such as ArpaNet? I suspect he had nothing to do with it. Follow-up question is, DID he have anything to do with the initiative surrounding creating the Internet, as opposed to actually creating it.

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Next question is, where was he during the predecessors to the Internet, such as ArpaNet? I suspect he had nothing to do with it. Follow-up question is, DID he have anything to do with the initiative surrounding creating the Internet, as opposed to actually creating it.

Google and wiki are your friends....

Al Gore contributions to the internet and technology

Campbell-Kelly and Aspray note in Chapter 12 of their 1996 text, Computer: A History of the Information Machine, that up until the early 1990s public usage of the Internet was limited. They continue to state that the "problem of giving ordinary Americans network access had exercised Senator Al Gore since the late 1970s" leading him to develop legislation which would alleviate this problem. [1] Gore thus began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill" [2]) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network[3] submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet). [4]

Indeed, Kleinrock would later credit both Gore and "The Gore Bill" as a critical moment in Internet history:

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I like Gore.

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss