Tim Berners-Lee, recognised as the father of the Wolrd Wide Web, has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (sic), in a function on Friday.
Berners-Lee never cashed in on his invention, instead opting to work as an academic in the United States and run the not-for-profit industry standards-setting body the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
He used the occasion to thank fellow Web collaborators. "Everyone in the Internet community should be recognized by this honor," he said in a statement released through the W3C.
"As the technology becomes even more powerful and available, using more kinds of devices, I hope we learn how to use it as a medium for working together, and resolving misunderstandings on every scale."
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