World Wide Web inventor wins computing's highest award
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has won the 2016 Turing Award, regarded as computing's highest award. Berners-Lee also won $1 million prize money with the award. He received the award not only for inventing the basics of the web, but concepts for links that were simple and easy to implement. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.