The opening ceremony of this summer’s London Olympics obliged that sentiment, as Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee got the star treatment during the extravaganza.
A hip-hoppy dance routine gave way as a stage-set suburban house rose from the ground to reveal a lone keyboard jockey surfing away in solitude.
None other than Berners-Lee it was, and with a flick of his wrist, he lit up the stadium with a grandly flashing tweet: “This is for everyone.”
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