Sir Tim Berners-Lee starts a blog and it’s a veritable love fest in his comments section.

And why wouldn’t it be? He did invent the World Wide Web after all. What would we be doing for a living if it were’t for the web? Probably still writing code, but still. It would be a slower costlier affair to write code without the benefit of Googling information.

One person commented that the Web would probably have happened anyways, but that misses the point. It may have happened anyways, but perhaps it would have been poorly realized and we’d only now be using a 1993 version of the web (blink tag anyone?).

Remember, Leonardo Da Vince conceptualized the helicopter long before the modern helicopter was invented, but you could hardly call him the inventor of the helicopter. Had he been able to follow through, perhaps we would have had helicopters before the mass produced car. Imagine that? Our world would probably look very different. Sir Tim followed through and we have what we have, warts and all.