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Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee was hailed on Thursday as one of the world's greatest scientists by the organisers of Germany's national Quadriga awards.

The organisers said that British-born Berners-Lee and German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein are the most important scientists of the 20th century. Berners-Lee was praised for making the World Wide Web "free for everyone", instead of patenting the technologies involved.

Berners-Lee created the Web while working at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva. To allow users to browse documents over a network he wrote the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), invented URLs, and wrote the first Web browser.

He now heads up the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a not-for-profit organisation that works to enhance the Web.

Berners-Lee's contribution has been recognised by a number of award ceremonies in the last couple of years. Earlier this year, he was named "Briton of the year" for 2004. In 2004 he was knighted, received a €1m award from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation and collected a lifetime achievement gong at the CNET UK awards.

The Web inventor will receive the Quadriga award on October 3, the date when Germany celebrates the unification of East and West Germany in 1990.

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Damn right, well done to the Germans, without the web where would we be today? For a lot of us, I think another job is the answer!

via Facebook 19 August, 2005 12:19
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Berners-Lee had the genius to use open protocols and formats, that allowed his good idea to take off. Nothing else could have. Earlier attempts for decades to dominate a network or force through a new technology failed, largely because each and every one of those attempts was centered around closed protocols or formats.

Let's keep that in mind in looking to the next 10 years, too. No matter how well hyped or marketed, closed protocols and formats just don't move. Best to just accept that and leave them alone.

TCP/IP, HTTP, & HTML : all open

via Facebook 19 August, 2005 18:45
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Under, er, stuff people should know-Germans rank Berners-Lee alongside Einstein

Mr. AT Alishtari, POA and Founder EDI Secure LLLP, says most people don't know how important the Ice family the patent holders to Internet Broadcasting and Single Use Credit Card Number ID that allows two factor authentiation with offline devices as US Commerce Department level 4 authentication.

Many scientists and programmers helped actualize the world wide web. There are many persons that further developed http after it was written for paramilitary purposes.

The WWW that came from http in its first version was something put together so secret scientists could do what they need to do without risking being kidnapped while traveling.

Unfortunately, the superspy Western block put back doors in http to see if scientists were cheating them and counter spies found these back doors.

The war of the worms continued until Russin fell and now most cybermafias are based out of Russia and China. So, guys, Ex-VP Al Gore did not invent the Internet after all.

via Facebook 22 August, 2005 05:37
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