Tim Berners-Lee Accomplishments
Inventions
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Invented the World Wide Web
Accomplisments
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Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his work in 2004
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Elected as a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Honored as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web" during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
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In 1999, Time Magazine named Berners-Lee one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century
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In 2011, he was one of the first three recipents of the Mikhail Gorbachev award for "The Man Who Changed the World"
Discoveries
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Created the first successful communication between
a HTTP client and a server via the Internet
Contributions
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Changed the way the world displays and shares information
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