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Title: Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee ISBN: 0-06-251587-X Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (43 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Such a nice guy
Comment: "Weaving the Web" gives the overwhelming impression that Tim Berners-Lee is basically a Regular Guy who was in exactly the right place at the right time. He comes across as a relentlessly enlightened person, beneficent toward all, earnest to the point of humorlessness.
The book tells the story of the past and present of the Web, and Berners-Lee's ideas about the future, at a very high level. It's not a Techie's History of the Web; there are a few annoying technical gaffes, and not much about the bits and bytes. I was surprised to read some non-technical reviewers opine that it was *too* technical. No pleasing everyone, I guess!
I'm not convinced by Berners-Lee's idea that, if only we hook everything together well enough, we will then be able to make computers that understand, that reason, that figure stuff out for us. I think the hooking-together is the easy part, and we'll still be far from real understanding. On the other hand, maybe I would have been a skeptic back in 1989, too, when he was telling people about this crazy thing called the World Wide Web... *8)
Rating: 5
Summary: Could there be a better history of the web
Comment: I have heard so many stories of the beginnings of the web, but for the first time, here is how it really happened. Tim Berners-Lee, the man who developed the 'World Wide Web' now tells the tale of how all this hypertext-hoopla began.
Berners-Lee writes in plain english, allowing non-programmers to share in his vision and goals for a universal (or should that be uniform?) way to share information across the internet. Especially interesting is the history of the browser market itself, without all the 'browser-war' hype.
Best of all, this book does not read like a technical specification -- but is full of warmth and humor as we see Berners-Lee bring his brainchild to light.
I read "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: the Origins of the Internet" by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, and desperately wished someone would do similar justice to the history of the web. Not only has someone now done just that, but that someone happens to be the inventor of the web! What more could you ask for?
Rating: 4
Summary: From the Mouth of Sir Tim
Comment: Pro: A recount of the history of the world wide web from the creator himself. Second pro, buying the book of the guy who gave us this really cool thing, and letting him reap a bit of financial reward. Okay, that's about it. If you are looking for a hard historical account of the web or the Internet's origins, you will only get a little bit of it here. Sir Tim recounts the internal tribulations of working at CERN and developing his hobby project in the first few chapters. After that, it becomes scattered and superficial. For a while he talks about DNS. Then he talks a bit about privacy. Then he wanders into ecommerce. The style is chatty and scant on solid information. Read the book; it's by Sir Tim. But buy another book to get the whole story.
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Title: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner ISBN: 0684832674 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 21 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web by Robert Cailliau, James Gillies ISBN: 0192862073 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop ISBN: 014200135X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology) by Janet Abbate ISBN: 0262511150 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 31 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-De-Siecle by Lewis H. Lapham, Lewis H. Lapman ISBN: 1859840620 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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