When did Lee ever claim he invented the internet? O_o don't make things up... He at worst claims he is the father of the world wide web, which he "is". And you might not realize the importance that had on today's world. before, communities were very different.

Blockchain technology at its core is a distributed database, it does not imply nor require the existance of a "token" (or coin per se). If they want to try such a system, where is the harm?