This seems unnecessarily snarky polemic to me. What TBL did was 'invent' the 'Web'. Yes he was standing on the shoulders of giants. Indeed, quoted from Wikip

This seems unnecessarily snarky polemic to me. What TBL did was 'invent' the 'Web'. Yes he was standing on the shoulders of giants. Indeed, quoted from Wikipedia: Creating the web was really an act of desperation, because the situation without it was very difficult when I was working at CERN later. Most of the technology involved in the web, like the hypertext, like the Internet, multifont text objects, had all been designed already. I just had to put them together. It was a step of generalising, going to a higher level of abstraction, thinking about all the documentation systems out there as being possibly part of a larger imaginary documentation system. — Tim Berners-Lee[