Tim Berners-Lee

You could have owned the web; instead you made it a commons. That choice is one of history great gifts.

Your fight for an open, fair web protects everyone who uses it. Thank you for guarding what you created.

Few inventions have changed humanity as fast as yours. You connected the whole species to its own knowledge.

Tim, you invented the World Wide Web and then gave it away for free. That generosity shaped modern civilisation.