100 ideas that changed the web / Jim Boulton.
By: Boulton, Jim
Publisher: London : Laurence King Publishing, [2014]Description: 216 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 22 cm001: 26580ISBN: 1780673701 (paperback); 9781780673707 (paperback)Other title: One hundred ideas that changed the webSubject(s): Internet -- History | World Wide Web -- HistoryDDC classification: 004.678 LOC classification: TK5105.888 | .B68 2014
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This innovative title looks at the history of the Web from its early roots in the research projects of the US government to the interactive online world we know and use today.
Fully illustrated with images of early computing equipment and the inside story of the online world's movers and shakers, the book explains the origins of the Web's key technologies, such as hypertext and mark-up language, the social ideas that underlie its networks, such as open source, and creative commons, and key moments in its development, such as the movement to broadband and the Dotcom Crash. Later ideas look at the origins of social networking and the latest developments on the Web, such as The Cloud and the Semantic Web.
Following the design of the previous titles in the series, this book will be in a new, smaller format. It provides an informed and fascinating illustrated history of our most used and fastest-developing technology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CHOICE Review
Boulton's 100 Ideas That Changed the Web is a coherent, concise chronicle of the history of the World Wide Web. Each of the 100 ideas is presented in a two-page article, with the textual content typically constituting about half of each presentation. The book should not be dismissed as superficial or casual in content. Boulton, curator of Digital Archaeology and Error 404 (exhibition of Web 1.0 websites), has done a careful job of curating this set of 100 ideas. Early articles examine general precursors to the web, starting with Paul Otlet's 1935 book Monde, which "described the Web six decades ahead of its invention." Later articles introduce the electronic precursors, culminating in the Internet and Tim Berners-Lee's "Project." The last 80 articles explore the development of the web, from technical standards to social media and the semantic web. Readers who have used the web for any significant amount of time will find the book a lively trip of nostalgia, filled with little-known factoids. Those who did not grow up with the web will find the volume illuminating, with a brief but useful list of suggested readings at the end. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. --Christopher Vickery, Queens College of CUNYThere are no comments on this title.