Five engineers that were essential to the creation of the internet as we know it have had their endeavors recognized by the first ever Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. The £1 million (roughly $1.51 million) prize was shared between Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web; Marc Andreessen, the co-author of Mosaic, the world's first true web browser; Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, who developed the TCP and IP protocols that underpin the internet; and Louis Pouzin, whose research was a huge influence on Kahn and Cerf's work.

Very honouredw Louis, Vint, Bob & Marcbe awarded 1st #QEPrize for #engineering -- credit to coders, standards geeks @w3c

— Tim Berners-Lee (@timberners_lee) March 18, 2013