At 11:43 PM -0700 6/13/07, Gavin Eadie wrote:
In one of today's WebObjects sessions at WWDC, it was asked how old
WebObjects really is. Work started on it in 1994 and ...
... while I'm in a historical mood, here's one for today -- please
excuse the diversion from normal business, but I actually think this
is noteworthy for this group:
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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.
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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6750395.stm
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