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The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor
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First Published:
Sep 1999, 226 pages
Paperback:
Sep 2000, 255 pages
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide With new online businesses and communities forming every day, the full impact of Berners-Lee's (the founder of the World Wide Web) grand scheme has yet to be fully known.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been hailed by
Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century. His
creation has already changed the way people do business, entertain
themselves, exchange ideas, and socialize with one another. With new
online businesses and communities forming every day, the full impact of
Berners-Lee's grand scheme has yet to be fully known.
Berners-Lee's creation was fueled by a highly personal vision of the
Web as a powerful force for social change and individual creativity. He
has never profited personally from the Web but has devoted himself to its
continued growth and health. Now, this low-profile genius tells his own
story of the Web's origins-from its revolutionary introduction and the
creation of the now ubiquitous WWW and HTTP acronyms to how he sees the
future development of this revolutionary medium. Today, Berners-Lee
continues to facilitate the Web's growth and development as director of
the World Wide Web Consortium and from his position at the MIT Laboratory
for Computer Science.
Berners-Lee offers insights to help readers understand the true nature
of the Web, enabling them to use it to their fullest advantage. He shares
his views on such critical issues as censorship, privacy, the increasing
power of software companies in the online world, and the need to find the
ideal balance between the commercial and social forces on the Web. His
incisive criticism of the Web's current state makes clear that there is
still much work to be done. Finally, Berners-Lee presents his own plan for
the Web's future, one that calls for the active support and participation
of programmers, computer manufacturers, and social organizations to make
it happen.
His vision of the Web is something much more than a tool for research
or communication; it is a new way of thinking and a means to greater
freedom and social growth than ever before possible.
Enquire Within upon Everything
When I first began tinkering with a software program that eventually gave
rise to the idea of the World Wide Web, I named it Enquire, short for Enquire
Within upon Everything, a musty old book of Victorian advice I noticed
as a child in my parents' house outside London. With its title suggestive
of magic, the book served as a portal to a world of information,
everything from how to remove clothing stains to tips on investing money.
Not a perfect analogy for the Web, but a primitive starting point.
What that first bit of Enquire code led me to was something much
larger, a vision encompassing the decentralized, organic growth of ideas,
technology, and society. The vision I have for the Web is about anything
being potentially connected with anything. It is a vision that provides us
with new freedom, and allows us to grow faster than we ever could when we
were...
Alan Baratz, Ph.D., President, Java Software, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Only one individual has the authority and unique
perspective to document the creation and evolution of the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners-Lee recounts with indisputable clarity and candor how it all
really happened the politics involved in bringing his model to life at
the CERN physics lab, the infamous browser wars, the integration of Java
technology, the creation of W3C and more. Alan Baratz, Ph.D., President, Java Software, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Only one individual has the authority and unique
perspective to document the creation and evolution of the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners-Lee recounts with indisputable clarity and candor how it all
really happened the politics involved in bringing his model to life at
the CERN physics lab, the infamous browser wars, the integration of Java
technology, the creation of W3C and more. Jeff Papows, President and CEO, Lotus Development Corp.
Tim Berners-Lee is the most qualified person on the
planet to chronicle the Web. With the introspection and concern only a
parent can truly express, he reaches beyond the common soundbytes of our
industry to define how the Web is dramatically impacting the very course
of humanity. Jeff Papows, President and CEO, Lotus Development Corp.
Tim Berners-Lee is the most qualified person on the
planet to chronicle the Web. With the introspection and concern only a
parent can truly express, he reaches beyond the common soundbytes of our
industry to define how the Web is dramatically impacting the very course
of humanity. Lew Wilks, President, Internet & Multimedia Markets, Qwest
Anyone who needs to understand the most fundamental
change in society since the Industrial Revolution must read Weaving the
Web. It is the definitive book on where the Internet has been and where it
is going by the person most responsible for its creation. Michael Dertouzos, Director, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
A compelling combination of techno-history and
visionary philosophy.
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