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- Presents the evolution of the Web by combining historical facts with its technical evolution
- Addresses both technical and societal issues in connection with the Web’s development
- Provides a novel analysis of the reasons behind the success of the Web
- Written for users who want to learn more about the development of the Web, from its roots to recent trends like apps and the Internet of Things
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Origins
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The Web
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The Patches
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System Engineering
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Back Matter
About this book
These are the sort of questions that the book addresses. Divided into four parts, it follows and critically reflects on the Web’s historical path. “Part I: The Origins” covers the prehistory of the Web. It examines the technology that predated the Web and fostered its birth. In turn, “Part II: The Web” describes the original Web proposal as defined in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and the most relevant technologies associated with it. “Part III: The Patches” combines a historical reconstruction of the Web’s evolution with a more critical analysis of its original definition and the necessary changes made to the initial design. In closing, “Part IV: System Engineering” approaches the Web as an engineered infrastructure and reflects on its technical and societal success.
The book is unique in its approach, combining historical facts with the technological evolution of the Web. It was written with a technologically engaged and knowledge-thirsty readership in mind, ranging from curious daily Web users to undergraduate computer science and engineering students.
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About the author
The son of two computer scientists, Marco Aiello was exposed early to computers. At the age of three he met Turing Award winner Alan Kay; at eight he wrote his first computer program in Logo on a TI-99/4A. In the early days of the Web, while an intern at Apple Computer in Cupertino, he wrote his first set of Web Common Gateway Interfaces. He then pursued an academic career in Europe. Currently he is Professor of Service Computing at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is a prolific author in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence having written over 150 scientific papers and books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Web Was Done by Amateurs
Book Subtitle: A Reflection on One of the Largest Collective Systems Ever Engineered
Authors: Marco Aiello
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90008-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90007-0Published: 31 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90008-7Published: 20 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 168
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Computer Science, History of Computing, Web Development, Computers and Society, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)