Nick Farrell, The (UK) Inquirer, reports:

THE BRITISH inventor of the World Wide Web has received the first Millennium Technology Prize in recognition of his revolutionary contribution to humanity.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee was given a £663,000 cash award presented by Finland’s president, Tarja Halonen. The award is among the largest of its kind and was set up along the lines of the Nobel prizes.

His graphical point-and-click browser, “WorldWideWeb”, was the first and it was him that fleshed out HTTP and HTML codes.

According to the Scotsman the prize committee was impressed by Berners-Lee’s decision to never patent his contributions to the internet.

Berners-Lee who has always avoided the spotlight, said that if he had done that there would be lots of little webs, but not one big one.