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Sir: It seems that there are two criteria that members of the general public must satisfy in order to be knighted: you have to do something exceptional and you have to live for many years after having done it. How many years, therefore, cam Tim Berners-Lee expect to have to wait before some government committee decides that inventing the World Wide Web was an achievement worth recognising?

RICHARD A BARTLE
Colchester, Essex


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