Berners-Lee wins Finnish innovation award worth $1.2M

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Berners-Lee wins Finnish innovation award worth
$1.2M

Boston Business Journal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Tim Berners-Lee has
won Finland's first Millennium Technology Prize, with a cash award
worth $1.2 million.

The biennial prize is
bestowed by the
Finnish Technology
Award Foundation
for outstanding
technological
innovation that
improves quality of
life and sustainable
economic
development.

Berners-Lee was
recognized for his
inventions of
hyper-text markup
language (HTML)
and hyper-text transfer protocol (HTTP), which enable web pages to be
created, organized and linked easily. In 1994 he founded the World Wide
Web Consortium, which continues to develop specifications for web
development.

http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2004/04/12/daily38.html



And thus, the toy before your eyes!

:toast:

I always thought he deserved more attention, he's been my hero for years. Such a simple, innovative invention that's done so much for society. Sort of a Gutenberg for our times.
I once actually wrote an email to him, thanking him for his contribution and he wrote back! I was going to frame a printout of it but it seemed kinda pointless.

Congrats!

:yourock: