How the Web was born : the story of the World Wide Web

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Title:

How the Web was born : the story of the World Wide Web

Author:

Gillies, James.

ISBN:

9780192862075

Personal Author:

Gillies, James.

Publication Information:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

xii, 372 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm

Contents:

List of plates -- List of figures -- 1. The foundations -- 2. Setting the scene at CERN -- 3. Bits and PCs -- 4. Enquire within upon everything -- 5. What are we going to call this thing? -- 6. Sharing what we know -- 7. The beginning of the future -- 8. It's official -- Epilogue -- Time line -- The cast (abridged) -- Bibliography and notes on sources -- List of acronyms -- Index.

Abstract:

"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 handed over for free for the rest of the world to use. This is the first book-length account of the Web's origins and development, and it covers the history of computer networking from the 1950s to the present day, as well as interviews with the key players in the story."--Jacket.

Corporate Subject:

European Organization for Nuclear Research.

Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire.

European Organization for Nuclear Research. (OCoLC)fst00547584

CERN.

Conference Subject:

CERN Accelerator School.

CERN Accelerator School. (OCoLC)fst01406855

Subject Term:

World Wide Web -- History.

Internet -- History.

Internet -- Histoire.

Web -- Histoire.

World Wide Web. (OCoLC)fst01181326

Internet.

World wide web.

Genre:

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Added Author:

Cailliau, R.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/2001274436-t.html
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/2001274436-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/2001274436-d.html

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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.