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Sir Timothy Berners-Lee was confered with an honorary doctorate by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) on October 10, for his contribution to the development of information technologies and, in particular, the invention of the World Wide Web in 1990, as well as the first web browser and first web server, with the principal aim of creating a network of digital content that could be shared thanks to a combination of hypertext and the internet.