Tim Berners-lee

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US Courts Stop Landmark Patent Troll Attempt

8:00PM February 10, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

Tim “I helped invent the Internet” Berners-Lee testified before a federal jury earlier this week, tearing into the validity of a key patent Eolas Technologies’ was exploiting to sue multiple web companies for $US600 million. He must have been persuasive because the court took mere hours to reach its decision. More »

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The Web At 20: It Changed Everything

5:00AM August 7, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Happy Birthday, Interwebz! How far you’ve come. See, if the internet drew its first breath in the spring of 1969, it took its first steps toward its potential on August 6, 1991. Took awhile there. But it was this first step that was just the beginning. More »

Science

9 Laboratories That Created The Modern World

9:30AM August 6, 2011 | Oobject.com

Sure Frankenstein’s lab had that green guy and Dr. Weird’s housed a gigantic mecha-bunny but these labs! These lairs of some of sciences greatest minds have given the world electricity, television, the Internet, and LSD! More »

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This Is Where The Web Was Born

3:40AM July 10, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Tim Berners-Lee cites this spot (specifically that plaque on the wall!) at CERN to be the birthplace of the world wide web. Note the series of tubes on the ceiling. Those played a critical role, I understand. [davidgalbraith]

Gadgets

Eight Regrettable Tech Inventions, Regretted

7:00AM October 15, 2009 | John Herrman

The history of technology is littered with great ideas, but you’ve gotta make a distinction between the ones that are truly, timelessly great, and the ones that, well, the ones that seemed good at the time. More »

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WWW Inventor Is Really Sorry About Destroying So Many Trees

7:33AM October 13, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who usually gets the cred for inventing the world wide web, says there is one thing he’d do differently if he did it all again: He’d dump the double slash that follows http in web addresses. More »

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The Queen Loves the Web

8:00AM June 15, 2007 | Seamus Byrne

It’s confirmed: the Queen loves the Web. And we have definitive proof. Two, actually. First, Her Majesty has just awarded the Order of Merit to Sir Tim Berners-Lee. That’s the most exclusive club in Britain, chaps. It’s limited to 24 living members and getting that funny cross is a personal decision by The Lady herself, not advised by any institution.

I don’t know what they do when they all meet, probably have tea, plumcake and watch videos of English BDSM, but when you learn that Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell were members, you get the idea of how important this is for good ole Liz.

Second and definitive proof: we got an exclusive GizmodoShotâ„¢ of the Queen using a MacBook reading her favorite blog, right after the jump. More »