The Web Was Done by Amateurs A Reflection on One of the Largest Collective Systems Ever Engineered /

• Main Author: Aiello, Marco (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Computer programming.; Computers and civilization.; Application software.; Popular Computer Science.; History of Computing.; Web Development.; Computers and Society.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

This book stems from the desire to systematize and put down on paper essential historical facts about the Web, a system that has undoubtedly changed our lives in just a few decades. But how did it manage to become such a central pillar of modern society, such an indispensable component of our econom...

Table of Contents:

• THE ORIGINS: The Pacific-Ocean Internet
• Hypermedia Until the Web
• THE WEB: The Original Web Pattern
• The Browser Lament
• THE PATCHES: Patching the Web
• Patch IV, Web Services
• The Unexploited Patch
• SYSTEM ENGINEERING: The Self-Organizing Web
• The Pervasive Future
• Should a New Web Be Designed?
• Dr. Dob's Interview with Alan Kay
• References
• Index.