The World Wide Web's explosion onto the global scene is one of the most dramatic arrivals of technology in history. Consequently, myths and misconceptions about the origins, impact and future of this technology have run wild. Now, for the first time, the world hears from the man who invented the WWW. English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee quietly laid the groundwork for the WWW (and consequently Hypertext) in 1980, created a prototype in 1990, and unleashed it to the public in 1991. Now the Head of the Worldwide Web Consortium that oversees the WWW's growth, Berners-Lee provides in this book the inside truth about where the WWW came from and the remarkable discoveries that made it the platform to today's communications revolution. He also offers an important analysis of the future development of the WWW, and the likely impact on business and society. Berners-Lee was recently described in The Observer as the man 'who invented the future, who created something which one day will be bigger than all the other industries on earth'.
- ISBN10 1587990180
- ISBN13 9781587990182
- Publish Date 1 June 2001 (first published 18 December 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Texere Publishing
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English