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.
This article is true but does a poor job of explaining itself.
SGML was invented at IBM before it became an ISO standard. It's purpose is right in the name, Standard Generalized Markup Language. HTML is an application of SGML (this is what IBM called use cases). XML is another application of SGML. It's fair to say Tim invented the HTML application.
Hyperlinks weren't invented by Berners-Lee. If Ted Nelson is to be believed, he invented them and was very disappointed in Tim's unidirectional version. Nelson's were two-way links.
It is absolutely true that Berners-Lee was responsible for kickstarting the internet we know today by standardizing on HTML + Mosaic (Mark Andreesen) at CERN.
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[