This massive reach explains why so many experts consider the web the single most influential invention of modern times. In ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

Citations: Greenstein, Shane. 2010. The Emergence of the Internet: Collective Invention and Wild Ducks. Industrial and Corporate Change. (5)1521-1562.