Tim Berners-Lee is a name that almost no one in America recognizes. He invented the World Wide Web almost single-handedly and that’snot even the most amazing aspect of his life. Inventing the World Wide Web would conservatively make anyone with even some business sense a billionaire, and someone who truly maintained ownership of it and rented access, domain names and the ability to traffic information through it could have theoretically become a trillionaire. Tim Berners-Lee chose instead to give the innovation of Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the World Wide Web to society with no strings attached.

The inventor of the World Wide Web

Here are three ways Tim Berners-Lee could have become the wealthiest person in the World by a factor of more than 10.



Source: http://ameboloaded.com/meet-tim-berners-lee-the-man-who-invented-worldwideweb-and-would-have-been-a-trillionaire-but-decided-that-we-all-should-use-it-for-free/

Maybe he doesn’t like money like Amaechi lol

Well, tho they say its not always all about the money.............but omo, owo ni koko o.

Mtcheew, u make sumtin kon dash people, now u come dey form broke.na u knw abeg, mtcheew

True . but he might really not get it commercialized successfully . Seun has done well with Nairaland, but you will all agree that the amount of business deal going on on Nairaland without his knowledge will be so much that if he charge a percentage for every successful deal, he will be among worlds richest.
I'm sure this man to made some money , but his invention outgrows him

ddjay:
Mtcheew, u make sumtin kon dash people, now u come dey form broke.na u knw abeg, mtcheew

Don't mind the OP, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is worth $50 million and is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is also a senior researcher at MIT. So the man is definitely not broke.

He is a LIVING LEGEND.

His not a Nigerian politician

He might not be rich like owners of Internet business giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon. But he's definitely not poor. I heard sometimes ago that Google gave him a huge amount of gift in cash honoring his works on invention of the Internet. He's definitely not broke. Nigerian bloggers can fabricate any lies to generate traffic to their websites

His invention outgrew him because he isn't so smart at the business.
If Mark Zuckerberg or Google founders invented it,there's no way they'll not be trillionaires

Lorhdany:

Don't mind the OP, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is worth $50 million and is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is also a senior researcher at MIT. So the man is definitely not broke.

If you consider what he would have made as the inventor of the internet to $50m, I think you'd understand the OP's point.

Monetisation of certain forms of technologies could actually stifle their growth. That is why the most popular forms of technology today run on open source platforms and that's really,the future of the techworld today. As example looks at Android, Linux, Apache,Bitcoins, MP3 etc etc.

johnydon22:


If you consider what he would have made as the inventor of the internet to $50m, I think you'd understand the OP's point.

Guess what! If he didn't do what he did, internet won't have grown to become a multi-billion dollar industry it is. Nobody would make billions on it and there won't be Facebook or Google. He would have stifled the great invention and another generous soul will do something better and open source it and make Tim's invention useless. We should just be grateful for this man's big heart and stop talking as if he made a mistake with open-sourcing the Internet. Afterall he's not crying and regretting his actions and very few people in the world make 50 million dollars before their fulfilling lives come to an end.

He's a noble man
And please the dude isn't poor

johnydon22:


If you consider what he would have made as the inventor of the internet to $50m, I think you'd understand the OP's point.

I think the OP wants us to believe that he's very broke like Eboue's kind of broke. A net worth of $50M is a lot, the man is very wealthy.

Na this man OP dey call broke

OP needs help

Op is definitely on weed. Just because he's not in the news definitely doesn't mean he's poor. Even if he's broke, help will never be far away from him - never.

OP made it look like the man is dime broke and regretting his action. If he had made the internet free, the internet industry wouldn't have boom like it is now or someone or an organization would have created an alternative for free.

So, it wasn't Philip Emeagwali that invented the internet?

Where are the chestbeaters?

Lorhdany:

Don't mind the OP, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is worth $50 million and is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is also a senior researcher at MIT. So the man is definitely not broke.

thanks for schooling me

world wide web is not same as the internet. there are other lines of communication that uses the internet thats not through the web.

johnydon22:


If you consider what he would have made as the inventor of the internet to $50m, I think you'd understand the OP's point.

So, someone with 50 million dollars is considered broke just because he'd could have made more than that if he had desired it. He's not broke because he didn't have more than that in the past.
Poor should have been a better word, definitely not broke.

maasoap:

So, someone with 50 million dollars is considered broke just because he'd could have made more than that if he had desired it. He's not broke because he didn't have more than that in the past.
Poor should have been a better word, definitely not broke.

I dont know why people will call someone with 50 million dollars(not naira o) poor. If that is the case, then anyone who is not in the top100 richest is also poor.

OP do your research before posting trips. He is isn't broke, you literally took a 2012 article and made it yours. What a joke.

Do not post fake information on NL
THREAD CLOSED

anibirelawal:
He is a LIVING LEGEND.

No he's a big fool... Even his generation will swear for him

Adiscamanja:
Tim Berners-Lee is a name that almost no one in America recognizes. He invented the World Wide Web almost single-handedly and that’snot even the most amazing aspect of his life. Inventing the World Wide Web would conservatively make anyone with even some business sense a billionaire, and someone who truly maintained ownership of it and rented access, domain names and the ability to traffic information through it could have theoretically become a trillionaire. Tim Berners-Lee chose instead to give the innovation of Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the World Wide Web to society with no strings attached.

The inventor of the World Wide Web

Here are three ways Tim Berners-Lee could have become the wealthiest person in the World by a factor of more than 10.



Source: http://ameboloaded.com/meet-tim-berners-lee-the-man-who-invented-worldwideweb-and-would-have-been-a-trillionaire-but-decided-that-we-all-should-use-it-for-free/

You need an Oscar for your bloody lies. He is not broke and why are you making it look like he is American? Dude is an English fellow.

[color=#000099][/color]someone worth over 40 million dollars your calling broke
my dear, if you don't have what to post
them shut the fxxk up someone worth over 40 million dollars your calling broke
my dear, if you don't have what to post
them shut the fxx up

blingxx:


No he's a big fool... Even his generation will swear for him

A man who invented the internet and decided to bless humanity with it is a fool. Just because he didn't have more than 50million dollars. Na wao. We Africans and our mentality sha. Na real wa o.