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Unit 5 Network Designer —Tim Berners-Lee;Quiz: how many words do you know about the Internet?;Internet acronyms ;Background introduction;Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Father of the Web);Berners-Lee was born in south west London, in 1955, the eldest child of two renowned mathematicians within the computer industry. A graduate of Oxford University, England. Queen Elizabeth II dubbed（ 授予称号）Tim Berners-Lee, the computer wizard/genius a knight with a sword in recognition of his contributions to the World Wide Web in 2004. As a British citizen, Berners-Lee will be able to use the title ‘Sir Tim’. ;Berners-Lee told the press he was notified of the honor a few days ago via the telephone, and not through the Internet or e-mail.I am humbled by this great honor, Berners-Lee said. The Web came about through an ongoing collaboration with my fellow investors and developers worldwide. Everyone in the Internet community should be recognized by this honor. The father of the World Wide Web received a knighthood for services to the Internet, but it is just one of the many honors and awards that Berners-Lee has received for his efforts. He has also been honored with the Millennium Technology Prize from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation and awarded by Prince Philip the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts. ;The modest, publicity-shy physicist, now based in the U.S., is at pains to point out that he did not invent the Internet itself and insists he is quite an ordinary person. But without his creation, there would be no www computer addresses and the Internet might still be the exclusive domain of a handful of computer experts. Currently he is also engaged in developing his second big idea: the Semantic Web, which adds definition tags to information in Web pages and links them in such a way that computers can discover data more efficiently and form new associations between pieces of information, in effect creating a globally distributed database. ;The father of the World Wide