LONDON, July 16 (UPI) -- Queen Elizabeth II has knighted Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with creating the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners-Lee received the honor in an hour-long ceremony at Buckingham Palace, where the queen used a sword that had belonged to her father, the BBC reports. The knighthood was given for "services to the global development of the internet."
"I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work," Berners-Lee said afterwards."It's very heartening that this one actually did."
Berners-Lee developed the web in the 1980s while he was working at an institute for particle physics in Geneva, Switzerland, to allow physicists to share information. He did not patent the web, wanting the greatest possible access to it.
He now heads the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
