How the Web Was Born
The Story of the World Wide Web
James Gillies and Robert Cailliau
Price: £17.00 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-286207-5
Publication date: 28 September 2000
Oxford Paperbacks
392 pages, numerous line illustrations, 196x129 mm
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| Reviews |
| - 'This is a scholarly work for the price of a novel' - Gareth Price
- 'It is not a light read but it is a good one!' - David Coleman, Multimedia Information and Technology, February 2001
- 'excellent book' - New Scientist 30/9/00
- 'a good read' - Glasgow Herald, 22/9/00
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| Description | | - The first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web
- Co-written by Robert Cailliau, one of the pioneers of the Web
- Contains interviews with the key players in the story
- Part of the March 2000 Popular Science promotion
| In 1994 a computer program called the Mosaic browser transformed the Internet from an academic tool into a telecommunications revolution. Now a household name, the World Wide Web is part of the modern communications landscape with tens of thousands of servers providing information to millions of users. Few people, however, realize that the Web was born at CERN, the European Laboratory for
Particle Physics, in Geneva, and that it was invented by an Englishman, Tim Berners-Lee.
This new book, published in the Popular Science list in Oxford Paperbacks, tells how the idea for the Web came about at CERN, how it was developed, and how it was eventually handed over for free for the rest of the world to use. This is the first book-length account of the Web's development and it
includes interview material with the key players in the story. |
Readership: General readers, anyone interested in the World-Wide Web and the internet, students and teachers of computing or technology.
| Contents |
Prologue; 1. The Foundations; 2. Setting the Scene at CERN; 3. Enquire Within Upon Everything; 4. False Beginnings; 5. So What Are We Going to Call This Thing?; 6. The Next Step; 7. Going Public; 8. Fleeing the Nest; 9. It's Official; Epilogue; Index.
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
James Gillies, CERN and
Robert Cailliau, Head of the Web office at CERN
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