[IP] Sir Berners-Lee
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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:56:17 -0500
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Subject: Sir Berners-Lee
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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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