Because of his invention Tim Berners-Lee is really really famous but he is still working as a scientist.
The Queen knighted him for his work so he is now Sir Tim Berners-Lee and he got invited to the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony in London where they called him Inventor of the World Wide Web in front of 80,000 people.
He has been given lots of awards for his invention.
I think Tim Berners-Lee is really clever and he has changed the world.
I cannot imagine what it would be like to live in a world without the internet.