Re: historical context ...
Re: historical context ...
- Subject: Re: historical context ...
- From: Gavin Eadie <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:35:21 -0700
Title: Re: historical context ...
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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