How the Web was born
by James Gillies · first published 2000
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"In 1993 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 Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, and that it was invented by an Englishman, Tim Berners-Lee." "This book tells how the idea for the Web came about at CERN, how it was developed, and how it was eventually hande
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…the Web Site. In all seriousness, Where the wizards stay up late (http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/06848326...) gives a good account of the beginning of the net. For the web there is How the web was born (http://www.amazon.com/How-Web-was-Born-Story/dp/0192862073/r...)
on “Why is Vint Cerf father of Internet and GOOG VP silent on net neutrality issue?” ↗Another good book one can reach for more details is: https://books.google.cz/books/about/How_the_Web_was_Born.htm... One of the authors, Robert Cailliau, was officially assigned to the web project along with Tim Berners-Lee in it's early stages in CERN.
on “1991 WWW-NeXT Implementation” ↗…and why it's primarily aimed towards consumers. > Had publishing content been as easy as consuming it was from the start, there would've been more tooling built around this concept .. I have red book "How the Web was Born" by James Gillies, R. Cailliau, and the reason why the original vision didn't fly is bit more complicated. https://books.google.com/books/about/How_the_Web_was_Born.ht... The thing is that the editing/publishing…
on “A read through the original WorldWideWeb proposal” ↗I just looked this up again in book "How the Web was Born" https://books.google.com/books/about/How_the_Web_was_Born.ht... And even though there are multiple people requested, the CERN management approved just 2 full time people to work on the project (Tim…
on “A read through the original WorldWideWeb proposal” ↗