Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web in 1991, is now Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Ironically, he learned he’ll become a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in Britain’s New Year honours not by email, but by telephone.

Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.

He wrote the first WWW client and the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP and HTML.

He’s now the overall Director of the W3C and senior research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.

Berners-Lee, named one of the top 20 thinkers of the 20th Century by Time magazine, now lives in the US.

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