In 1989, if Tim Berners Lee had applied for intellectual property rights for the World Wide Web he invented, the Internet world would have been completely different.

For example, Jeff Bizot, founder of amazon, Jerry Yang, founder of Yahoo, and mark anderson, founder of Netscape.

Soon after Tim announced his invention to the public in p>1989, Internet companies surged. Overnight, a group of rich people were born. The "father of the World Wide Web" still insists on his poor scientific research work.

The first winner of the Millennium Technology Award in p>24.

On April 15th, 24, at a ceremony in Espoo, Finland, the Finnish Technology Prize Foundation designated Tim Berners-Lee, 49, as the first winner of the Millennium Technology Award, the largest technology prize in the world, and awarded him a prize of 1 million euros. Everyone else deserves it, and it took Tim 15 years to get it.

"It's really a surprise," Tim said, "but money doesn't drive me crazy. I have to distribute the bonus of 1 million euros properly. My family lives in the suburbs, and it is inconvenient for my children to go to school. In addition, my wife is always complaining that we should repair the kitchen. "

In p>1989, Tim, who worked in CERN, invented the World Wide Web for the need of high-energy physics research. Four years later, Netscape launched the World Wide Web product, which immediately swept the world. The birth of the World Wide Web has brought revolutionary changes to the global information exchange and dissemination, and opened the door for people to obtain information in one fell swoop.

When the Finnish Technology Award Foundation decided to give Tim the newly-created "Millennium Technology Award" of 1 million euros, many people felt that he was a well-deserved winner.

Pekka Tajanet, the chairman of the selection committee of the Millennium Technology Award, called Tim's award "popular". Eight members of the jury unanimously recommended Tim as the first winner of the "Millennium Technology Award" among all 78 candidates.

Cang Xie in the Internet world In the history of Internet development, there are many "fathers", such as ray Tomlinson, the inventor of E-mail, who invented Viton CERF and robert kahn, who interconnected and interacted different computer networks. But only Tim invented the World Wideweb.

before him, there was no browser, no "WWW", and the online world was blank. If you had applied for intellectual property rights and patents from your own WWW and later the World Wide Web for personal interests, the Internet world today would be unimaginable. Tim hypothetically said, "In that case, there will be at least 16 different kinds of Web in the world, including CERN, Microsoft and Apple ..."

Many people say that Tim was stupid and gave up the opportunity to become a super rich man, but Tim doesn't think so. He thinks that the patent protection of software has endangered the core spirit of promoting the development of Internet technology. "The problem is, if someone is writing a program, then a person comes from behind, glances at it and says,' Hey, sorry, I have applied for a patent for 35 to 42 sentences in your program'. This undoubtedly hurts the development of science and technology. If you think that a computer can do something, you should write this idea into a computer program to realize it. This is the soul of many great technological developments. Recalling his own invention, Tim said modestly: "Its discovery was not inspired by Eureka, nor was it like an apple that fell on Newton's head and proved the concept of gravity. On the contrary, people gradually realize that it can generate power by combining various ideas into a web (that is, the Web) in an eclectic way. The birth of the Internet is a response to an open challenge. "

"After the birth of hypertext and computers, I happened to have plenty of time and no lack of interests and hobbies. The task that falls on my head is to combine them organically. "

Someone once asked Tim, "Do you think it is possible to find a balance between online business activities and your initial motivation of" enjoying knowledge and coordinating with each other "?"

Tim said, "There is no need to define this balance. In a balanced state, when the commercial business volume increases, the cooperative business volume will decrease, but they are not competing with each other. In fact, collaboration has greater commercial value. The company that learns to use the network to work together better may be the company that finally wins. "

maybe, in others' eyes, all Tim's actions are extraordinary. In Tim's eyes, life is about to let nature take its course.