More Proof Al Gore Didn’t Invent the Internet

Tim Berners-Lee (Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee) has received the computing’s version of the Nobel Prize, the A.M. Turing Award, for inventing the internet.

World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee just chalked up another accolade, and it’s one of his greatest yet. The Association for Computing Machinery has given him the 2016 Turing Award, frequently considered the Nobel Prize of the computing industry. He’s receiving the award not just for inventing the basics of the web but designing them in an elegant way. His concepts for links (URLs and URIs) were simple and easy to implement while making HTML the heart of the web helped anyone publish info in a practical format.

Al’s got other, bigger lies to atone for but we’re still waiting for that day to come.

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