He doesn’t need the web anymore

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has hit the headlines by flogging off the World Wide Web source code at Sotheby’s.

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When Tim Berners-Lee was 33 years old, he penned a letter to his bosses at CERN suggesting a common protocol for using the interweb that was intended to demolish the Tower of Babel and let people communicate with each other worldwide.