Tweet of the day by @TheFirmOnline #NBC Olympic anchor on Tim Berners Lee #London2012 #olympia #london #www

Awesome, this tweet is just awesome and breathtaking and shows how dumb some tv commentators are, still:

"If you haven't heard of him, we haven't either." NBC Olympic anchor on Tim Berners Lee. Co anchor: "Google him". Breathtaking.

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The Firm (@TheFirmOnline) July 28, 2012

von Paul Clarke (originally posted to Flickr as Tim Berners-Lee) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

 But why? Because of this (Link origin: london2012.com)

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The Ceremony also paid tribute to Britain’s contribution to a modern revolution – the internet revolution. A sequence that featured British music from the 60’s to now, culminated in the appearance of British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the worldwide web and ensured it was placed in trust and protected against ownership so it could be free for the world.
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Wikipedia-Link of Tim Berners-Lee

Unfortunately I haven’t found a video of the short scene from the opening ceremony yet, I hope it’ll come soon…