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Day 999 Dorset Fact 2: 999 Days to go to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games



Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. Sir Tim lived for many years in Wimborne, Dorset. John Cornish  - Wimborne

31 October 2009 marks 1000 days to go until the start of the 2012 London Games. As part of the remarkable build up Team Dorset has launched the ‘1,000 facts for 1,000 days’ project where 1,000 facts about Dorset are being collected and one a day will be published on the Team Dorset website, other leading Dorset websites and local media, starting from 31 Oct 2009 right up until Games time in July 2012.
If you know any other remarkable facts about Dorset please add them in the comments section below or visit the Team Dorset website and add them there.

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