Is tim berners-lee famous? (the inventor of the www)?

Question

is Tim berners-lee famous?

Answer 1

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born 8 June 1955) who, with the help of Robert Cailliau, and a young student staff at CERN, implemented on December 25, 1990, the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet. He is ranked Joint First in The Telegraph's list of geniuses. However, following Albert Hoffman's death he is now solely first. He is also the director of the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C (which oversees its continued development), and a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).[1]

He is only famous among his peers, recently he did a commercial in England showing him ride a red London bus, not a single person knew who he was.

Answer 2

WHAT? It wasn't Al Gore? But, Al Gore said he invented the world wide web.

Seriously, most people haven't a clue that Timothy Berners-Lee had anything at all to do with the www.