June 16, 2004
First tech nobles price goes to the WWW inventor
Posted at June 16, 2004 4:53 PM in Tech
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Nobel prize is a classic awarding manifest, it deals with litterature, peace, healt wre, ... but now it has changed, the tech stuff is also worth so important award, and that's waht happened with SIR Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the WWW.
SIR Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, has avoided both the spotlight and the riches won by many internet entrepreneurs. But yesterday he received the first Millennium Technology Prize - a £663,000 cash award recognising his revolutionary contribution to humanity’s ability to communicate.
[Scotman News]
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