Tim Berners-Lee Knighted

This is quite old news but I think it's worthy to mention it in my blog to honor the man who makes what I'm doing now, blogging, one of the things you can do with the existence of the internet, possible.

31 December 2003 -- Buckingham Palace has announced that Queen Elizabeth II will make Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). The rank of Knight Commander is the second most senior rank of the Order of the British Empire, one of the Orders of Chivalry awarded. Berners-Lee, 48, a British citizen who lives in the United States, is being knighted in recognition of his "services to the global development of the Internet" through the invention of the World Wide Web. Read the press release here.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee's biography is here and TIME 100 has an interesting write up about how i all began. A paragraph from the TIME 100 article that I'd like to quote...

Unlike so many of the inventions that have moved the world, this one truly was the work of one man. Thomas Edison got credit for the light bulb, but he had dozens of people in his lab working on it. William Shockley may have fathered the transistor, but two of his research scientists actually built it. And if there ever was a thing that was made by committee, the Internet — with its protocols and packet switching — is it. But the World Wide Web is Berners-Lee's alone. He designed it. He loosed it on the world. And he more than anyone else has fought to keep it open, nonproprietary and free.