And of course, Tim is not really one of the webs founding fathers, he himself utters deprecatingly, occasionally, depending on the audience.

No wonder he's not a fan of Wiki, or Wikileaks....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet <<<<<<---Note the real founding fathers who to this day have not been knighted by the Queen, (Like Tim) and or received numerous prestigious awards for re-badging, or expanding on someone else's idea.
He may be the founder of WWW protocol, and associated regulatory, monitoring, SPYING, organising organisations and foundations these days, this and thought WWW looked better than YYY, but he's not among the 'true' founder of the WWW concept itself.
Who's the father of democracy?
Hint: NOT Thomas Jefferson

A good idea at the time was his rational?In a Times article in October 2009, Berners-Lee admitted that the forward slashes ("//") in a web address were actually "unnecessary". He told the newspaper that he could easily have designed URLs not to have the forward slashes. "There you go, it seemed like a good idea at the time," he said in his lighthearted apology
He should tell the truth, which is the 'nameless' student geek who built the information management protocol for he and a CERN colleague of his, was in fact one of many who came up with the WWW concept and protocol along with the said unessential // protocol also...

So from this we may conclude, whilst Mr Berners is not among the true fathers of the the World Wide Web concept itself, he is that of the needless ("//").....

