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Weaving the Web : The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventorby Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Fischetti (Contributor), Michael Dertouzos
Hardcover - 226 pages 1 Ed edition  (September 22, 1999) Other Editions: Paperback, Audio Cassette (Abridged)
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Editorial Reviews Amazon.com If you can read this review (and voice your opinion about Tim Berners-Lee's book Weaving the Web on Amazon.com), you have the author to thank. When you've read his no-nonsense account of how he invented the World Wide Web, you'll want to thank him again, for the sheer coolness of his ideas. One day in 1980, Berners-Lee, an Oxford-trained computer consultant, got a random thought: "Suppose all the information stored on computers everywhere was linked?" So he created a system to give every "page" on a computer a standard address (now called a URL, or universal resource locator), a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), hypertext markup language (HTML), and the first browser, which did the trick of linking us all up. He may be the most self-effacing genius of the computer age, and his egalitarian mind is evident in the names he rejected for his invention: "I thought of Mine of Information, or MOI, but moi in French means 'me,' and that was too egocentric.... The Information Mine (TIM) was even more egocentric!" Also, a mine is a passive repository; the Web is something that grows inexorably from everyone's contributions. Berners-Lee fully credits the colorful characters who helped him get the bobsled of progress going--one colleague times his haircuts to match the solstices--but he's stubbornly independent-minded. His quest is to make the Web "a place where the whim of a human being and the reasoning of a machine coexist in an ideal, powerful mixture." Hard-core tech types may wish Berners-Lee had gone into deeper detail about the road ahead: the "boon and threat" of XML, free versus commercial software, VRML 3-D imaging, and such. But he wants everyone in on the debate, so he wrote a brisk book that virtually anyone can understand. --Tim Appelo Click here for more information or to place an online order. |
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