[Tech] Tim Berners-Lee vince il Millennium Technology Prize

L'inventore del World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, ha vinto il Millennium Technology Prize, un premio da 1 milione di euro (1,2 milioni di dollari) istituito dalla Finnish Technology Award Foundation.

In 1989, Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project to be known as the World Wide Web. It was designed to let people work together by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents.



Berners-Lee wrote the first World Wide Web server, "httpd", and the first client, "World Wide Web," in October 1990. He also wrote the first version of the document formatting language with the capability for hypertext links, known as HTML.



Pekka Tarjanne, chairman of the International Award Selection Committee, said: "The Web has significantly enhanced many people's ability to obtain information central to their lives and it is encouraging new types of social networks."

Attualmente TBL è alla guida del W3C, il World Wide Web Consortium, presso il MIT di Boston.



Fonte: WebUser.