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The inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has won a prestigious award which comes with a prize bag of one million euros (£671,000).
The "Father of the Web" was named as the first winner of the Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.
In 1991, he came up with a system to organise, link and browse net pages which revolutionised the internet.
The British scientist was knighted for his pioneering work in 2003.
Modest man
Sir Tim created his hypertext program while he was at the particle physics institute, Cern, in Geneva.
The computer code he came up with let scientists easily share research findings across a computer network. In the early 1990s, it was dubbed the "world wide web", and is still the basis of the web as we know it.
The famously modest man never went on to commercialise his work. Instead he worked on expanding the use of the net as a channel for free expression and collaboration.
Born in London in 1955
Read physics at Queen's College, Oxford
Banned from using university PC for hacking
Built own computer with old TV, a Motorola microprocessor and soldering iron
Created web in late 1980s and early 1990s at Cern
Offered it free on the net
Founded World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994
Named by Time magazine as one of the top 20 thinkers of the 20th century
Knighted in 2003
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