Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.

All these are linked to the World Wide Web, so I can be in my office and look and see what the conditions are out at Bahia Grande by accessing lighthouse.tamucc.edu,