<story><title>Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony </title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/uk/sir-tim-berners-lee-stars-in-olympics-opening-ceremony-7000001744/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Posibyte</author><text>This absolutely had my inner geek exploding in giddiness. It was one thing for the London Olympics to recognize him as a key part of the modern era, but to also place the (same model?) NeXT Cube next to him just topped it off. This made it memorable for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djhworld</author><text>It made me very, very happy to see Tim there.&lt;p&gt;A lot of the media in the UK is very populist and anti-intellectual, celebrating questionable people (pop stars et al.) for their less than desirable achievements.&lt;p&gt;So it was good to see Tim being given such a platform celebrating his input into the world.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony </title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/uk/sir-tim-berners-lee-stars-in-olympics-opening-ceremony-7000001744/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Posibyte</author><text>This absolutely had my inner geek exploding in giddiness. It was one thing for the London Olympics to recognize him as a key part of the modern era, but to also place the (same model?) NeXT Cube next to him just topped it off. This made it memorable for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>I realised that the whole event was probably going to be interesting when they had an &lt;i&gt;engineer&lt;/i&gt; reading Shakespeare at the start.&lt;p&gt;NB My personal favourite was the NHS/GOSH/kids-fiction section.</text></comment>