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

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a good read

Glasgow Herald, 22/9/00

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.
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Few people realize that the Web was born at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, and that it was invented by an Englishman, Tim Berners-Lee. This account tells how the idea first came about, how it was developed, and how it was handed over for free for the world to use.
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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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`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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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
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James Gillies is a professional science writer at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Robert Cailliau is Head of the Web office at CERN, and one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web.
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
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Product details

ISBN
9780192862075
Published
2000
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
403 gr
Height
197 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
21 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
392

Biographical note

James Gillies is a professional science writer at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Robert Cailliau is Head of the Web office at CERN, and one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web.