_Weaving the Web_ by Tim Berners-Lee

[Julie James]

The audio version of this book is also quite good. Even if you already know
the history of the web, his narrative does a great job of putting it all in
perspective.

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Julie James
Technology Consultant
The Library of Virginia
804/692-0800
jjames at vsla.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: publib at webjunction.org [mailto:publib at webjunction.org]On
> Behalf Of Miriam Bobkoff
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:13 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [PUBLIB] Tim Berners-Lee (I suppose this is off-topic)
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> I've been reading Tim Berners-Lee's book, _Weaving the Web_. The first
> hundred or so pages are really moving. He built it on purpose to be what
> it became--a universal information space, accessible to anyone. No wonder
> we public librarians took to the Web: it was invented by a soulmate. I
> myself am maintaining four separate web places today--the library's web
> page, the library's web-catalog, my personal page, and a small online
> poetry magazine. All dreamed up in effect by one prophetic man. Thank you,
> Mr. Berners-Lee.
>
> He says things like,
> "I wanted the act of adding a new link to be trivial; if it was, then a
> web of links could spread evenly across the globe." (p.16)
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> "If everyone on the Web could do this [create a link to anything], then a
> single hypertext link could lead to an enormous, unbounded
> world." (p.34)
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> "...(T)he Web, which I designed to be a medium for all sorts of
> information, from the very local to the very global, grew decidedly in
> the direction of the very global, and as a publication medium..." (p. 57)
>
> He got CERN, his employer when he developed the Web, to agree "to allow
> anybody to use the Web protocol and code free of charge, to create a
> server or a browser, to give it away or sell it, without any royalty or
> other constraint." (p. 74)
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> "...I had designed the Web so there should be no centralized place where
> someone would have to 'register' a new server, or get approval of its
> contents. Anybody could build a server and put anything on it.
> Philosophically, if the Web was to be a universal resource, it had to be
> able to grow in an unlimited way." (p.99)
>
> Weaving the Web : the original design and ultimate destiny of the World
> Wide Web by its inventor / Tim Berners-Lee with Mark Fischetti.
> [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c1999.
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> Miriam Bobkoff                  personal: mbobkoff at rt66.com
> Santa Fe Public Library         work:
> mbobkoff at ci.santa-fe.nm.us
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> the four websites:
> Santa Fe Public Library Home Page
>    http://www.ci.santa-fe.nm.us/sfpl/
> SFPL's catalog
>    http://catalog.ci.santa-fe.nm.us
> Miriam's page
>    http://www.rt66.com/~mbobkoff/
> Santa Fe Poetry Broadside
>    http://www.rt66.com/~sfpoetry/
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