Creator of the Web : Tim Bernes-Lee

Tim Bernes-Lee pretty much created the Web. He built a Web Index, a list of countries using the Internet. It is an attempt to know how the Web is helpful to people and how to get others who are not using it on board. Sweden was ranked No. 1. Iceland has the highest number of people online: 95 per cent. The UK lags behind that, and the US is a long way behind that at 78 per cent. However, it is not just connectivity. Is the Web useful ? Internet monopolies are something we should be concerned about as they tend to limit innovation. Tim likes that he has not become a household name, and is anonymous on the street. He built his first computer when he was in college with a soldering iron, transistor-transistor logic gates, an M6800 processor and an old TV.

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