] The inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee,
] has been awarded a knighthood for his pioneering work.

] "The original idea of the web was that it should be a
] collaborative space where you can communicate through
] sharing information.
]
] "The idea was that by writing something together, and as
] people worked on it, they could iron out
] misunderstanding."

] He added that his knighthood proves what can happen to
] "ordinary people" who work on things that "happen to
] work out", like the web.

BBC NEWS | Tim Berners-Lee gets a knighthood