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<p>Supplementary material to the book</p>
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<li><a href="glossary.html">Glossary: version with links</a></li>
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<li><a href="/History.html">A short timeline</a></li>
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<li><a href="Errata.html">Errata</a></li>
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href="http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0062515861">Excerpt:
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Chapter 1 online</a></li>
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<h1>Weaving the Web</h1>
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<h2>The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web, by its
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inventor</h2>
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<address>
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<a href="../Overview.html">Tim Berners-Lee</a> with Mark Fischetti
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</address>
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<a href="images/weav2a.jpg"><img src="images/weaving.jpg"
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alt="Cover design by Laura Beers" align="right" border="0"></a>
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<p><strong>Buy</strong>: <a
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<a href="XX">*</a></p>
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<p></p>
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<p>This book is written to address the questions most people ask - From "What
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were you thinking when you invented it?" through "So what do you think of it
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now?" to "Where is this all going to take us?", this is the story.</p>
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<p></p>
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<p>It is not a technical book. (If you want the technical details, check out
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the <a href="/">W3C web site!</a>). It does mention a little about how
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technologies you may have heard of - like XML - fit in to the past, present
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and future, but only in the course of charting the course for the Web from
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the initial dream - still largely unfulfilled - to the next technical and
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social revolution.</p>
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<p></p>
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<p>Now it has been out for a while, it seems different people like different
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bits.</p>
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<p>-Tim BL</p>
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<h2>International publication</h2>
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<p>The book is available from all good bookstores in the US and on the web
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<a href="XX">*</a>)</p>
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<p></p>
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<table border="1" style="background-color: #FFF4ED">
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<tbody>
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<th>Language/Country</th>
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<th>Publisher</th>
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<th>ISBN</th>
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<th>Approx. date</th>
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<td>Chinese (complex characters)</td>
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<td>Commercial Press</td>
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<td>.</td>
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<td>1999</td>
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<td>Chinese (simplified characters)</td>
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<td>Shanghai Translation Publishing House</td>
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<td>.</td>
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<td>?</td>
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<td>Danish <em><a href="http://www.adlandia.dk/web.htm ">Webbets Vej
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Til Verden</a></em></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.adlandia.dk/ ">Adlandia</a></td>
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<td>87-981179-2-0</td>
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<td>2001/05/17</td>
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<td>Dutch - <em><a
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href="http://www.nieuwezijds.nl/boeken/9057120909.html">De Wereld van
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het World Wide Web</a></em></td>
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<td>Nieuwezijds</td>
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<td>9057120909</td>
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<td>English /UK + Australia</td>
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<td>Orion business, now Texere</td>
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<td>0694521256 (hardback)
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<p>(also in paperback)</p>
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</td>
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<td>1999/11/25</td>
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<td>English /USA<br>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/bookPage/index.asp?isbn=006251587X&rd=1">Weaving
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the Web</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/order_xml.asp?isbn=006251587X">Buy
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this book</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p></p>
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</td>
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<td><a
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href="http://www.harpercollins.com/imprints/harper_sanfrancisco/">Harper
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San Francisco</a></td>
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<td>0062515861 (paperback)<br>
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0062515861 (hardback, out of print)<br>
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0694521256 (audio)</td>
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<td>1999/9/22</td>
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<td>German <em>Der Web-Report</em></td>
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<td>ECON</td>
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<td>3-430-11468-3</td>
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<td>2000/1/1</td>
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<td>Italian <em><a
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href="http://www.feltrinelli.it/SchedaLibro?id_volume=1370395">L'Architettura
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del Nuovo Web</a></em></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.feltrinelli.it/ ">Feltrinelli</a></td>
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<td>.</td>
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<td>2001/03/09</td>
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<td>Japanese. <em>Trans: Toru Takahashi et. al.</em></td>
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<td>Mainichi Communications, rec.price: 2400yen + tax</td>
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<td>48399-0287-9</td>
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<td>2001/09/01
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<td>Spanish <em> <a
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href="http://www.sigloxxieditores.com/Libros/tejiendo_la_red.htm">Tejiendo
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la red</a></em></td>
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<td>Siglo Editores</td>
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<td>84-323-1040-9</td>
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<td>2000/05</td>
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</table>
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<h2>What's the flap about?</h2>
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<p><em>[From the Harper edition cover flap, Harper say:]</em></p>
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<p></p>
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<p>Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been hailed by
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<em>Time</em> magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century. His
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creation has already changed the way people do business, entertain
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themselves, exchange ideas, and socialize with one another. With new online
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businesses and communities forming every day, the full impact of
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Berners-Lee's grand scheme has yet to be fully known.</p>
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<p></p>
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<p>Berners-Lee's creation was fueled by a highly personal vision of the Web
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as a powerful force for social change and individual creativity. He has never
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profited personally from the Web but has devoted himself to its continued
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growth and health. Now, this low-profile genius tells his own story of the
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Web's origins-from its revolutionary introduction and the creation of the now
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ubiquitous WWW and HTTP acronyms to how he sees the future development of
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this revolutionary medium. Today, Berners-Lee continues to facilitate the
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Web's growth and development as director of the World Wide Web Consortium and
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from his position at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.</p>
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<p></p>
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<p>Berners-Lee offers insights to help readers understand the true nature of
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the Web, enabling them to use it to their fullest advantage. He shares his
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views on such critical issues as censorship, privacy, the increasing power of
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software companies in the online world, and the need to find the ideal
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balance between the commercial and social forces on the Web. His incisive
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criticism of the Web's current state makes clear that there is still much
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work to be done. Finally, Berners-Lee presents his own plan for the Web's
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future, one that calls for the active support and participation of
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programmers, computer manufacturers, and social organizations to make it
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happen.</p>
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<p></p>
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<p>His vision of the Web is something much more than a tool for research or
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communication; it is a new way of thinking and a means to greater freedom and
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social growth than ever before possible.</p>
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<p></p>
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<p>TIM BERNERS-LEE, inventor of the Web, is currently the director of the
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World Wide Web Consortium, the coordinating body for Web development, and he
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occupies the 3Com Founders chair at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
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Recipient of numerous awards, he received the distinguished MacArthur
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Fellowship in 1998. He lives in Cambridge, MA.</p>
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<h3>For the first time ever, the inventor of the World Wide Web speaks
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out</h3>
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<p>"Tim Berners-Lee is the most qualified person on the planet to chronicle
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the Web. With the introspection and concern only a parent can truly express,
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he reaches beyond the common soundbytes of our industry to define how the Web
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is dramatically impacting the very course of humanity." -- Jeff Papows,
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President and CEO, Lotus Development Corp.</p>
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<p></p>
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<p>Tim Berners-Lee's creation of the World Wide Web has forever changed the
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shape of modern life, altering the way people do business, entertain and
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inform themselves, build communities, and exchange ideas. "If [computer
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networking] were a traditional science, Berners-Lee would win a Nobel Prize,"
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Novell CEO Eric Schmidt said in <em>Time</em>. when it deemed Berners-Lee one
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of the greatest 100 minds of this century. Now, in <em>Weaving the Web,</em>
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the Web's creator speaks his mind about his invention: how it evolved, what
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its untapped potential is, and what his own personal vision is for its
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future.</p>
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<p></p>
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<p>"Unlike so many of the inventions that have moved the world, this one
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truly was the work of one man... the World Wide Web is Berners-Lee's alone.
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He designed it. He loosed it on the world. And he more than anyone else has
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fought to keep it open, non-proprietary, and free... It's hard to overstate
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the impact of the global system he created. It's almost Gutenbergian. He took
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a powerful communications system that only the élite could use and turned it
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into a mass medium." --<em>Time</em> Magazine</p>
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<address>
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[From the Harper edition cover flap - I didn't write it ;-)]
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</address>
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