Type http://info.cern.ch/ on the internet and you will get four options: (a) browse the first website, (b) browse the first website using the line-mode browser simulator, (c) learn about the birth of the web, and (d) learn about CERN, the physic laboratory where the web was born. The URL was not keyed on the whim, actually the writer of this article was induced to do so after reading Tim Berners-Lee’s, inventor of World Wide Web, wonderful book Weaving the Web. The story of the Web which unfolds in the book is as unique story as its inventor.
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Weaving the Web stands out among the innumerable number of great books written on the history of World Wide Web not simply because its author happens to be the inventor of Web or that the book tells story of World Wide Web’s past, present, and future. These are definitely valid enough reasons for the book in being great, but actually, the number one reason for this book in being....
