The Web was done by amateurs : a reflection on one of the largest collective systems ever engineered /: a reflection on one of the largest collective systems ever engineered. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marco Aiello.
• Authors: Aiello, Marco
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 The Web Was Done by Amateurs; 1.1 Text Versus Objects; 1.2 The Birth of the Web; Part I The Origins; 2 The Pacific-Ocean Internet; 2.1 ARPANET; 2.2 Comments, Please!; 2.3 The Internet; 2.4 Why Is It a Natural Resource?; 3 Hypermedia Until the Web; 3.1 How We May Think; 3.2 The oN-Line System (NLS); 3.3 Xanadu; 3.4 HyperCard; 3.5 Enquire and the Birth of the Web; Part II The Web; 4 The Original Web Pattern; 4.1 Uniform Resource Locator; 4.2 HyperText Transfer Protocol; 4.3 HyperText Markup Language; 5 The Browser Lament 5.1 The Browser Is an Application5.2 Early Browsers; WorldWideWeb Browser; Lynx; Mosaic; 5.3 Netscape; 5.4 Microsoft's Internet Explorer; 5.5 Google's Chrome; Part III The Patches; 6 Patching the Web; 6.1 Patch I: Cookies; 6.2 Patch II: Run Anywhere; 6.3 Patch III: Scripting; 7 Patch IV: Web Services; 7.1 Securing the Intranet; 7.2 Corba and IDLs; 7.3 The Magic Triangle; 7.4 Service-Oriented Computing; 7.5 A Personal Tale: Compose It Now!; 7.6 The Patch; 7.7 Who's Serving?; 7.8 XML Web Services Versus the REST; 7.9 Vaporizing Services; 8 The Unexploited Patch; 8.1 The Semantic Gap 8.2 Subsumptions Subsumed by Subsumptions8.3 The Patch; Part IV System Engineering; 9 The Self-Organizing Web; 9.1 The Size and Shape of the Web; 9.2 Self-Organization and Complex Networks; 9.3 Searching the Web; 9.4 Self-Organization, Patching, and the Role of Amateurs; 10 The Pervasive Future; 10.1 Apps; 10.2 Web (on the Internet) of Things; 10.3 The Web and Artificial Intelligence; 11 Should a New Web Be Designed?; A Dr. Dobb's Interview with Alan Kay; A.1 A Note About Dr. Dobb's Journal; A.2 The Interview; Childhood as a Prodigy; The European Invasion in Computer Science Computing as Pop CultureThe Browser: A Lament; Objects; Programming; Group Work; References; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.72; Popular works; World Wide Web; World Wide Web -- Social aspects; Computer science -- History; COMPUTERS / Web / Design; Computer science; World Wide Web; World Wide Web -- Social aspects; Computers -- History; Computers -- Web -- Web Programming; Computers -- Social Aspects -- General; Computers -- Information Technology; Computing & information technology; Web programming; Ethical & social aspects of IT; Information retrieval; Computer science; Computer programming; Computers -- General; Information technology: general issues; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319900087; 3319900080
• Related ISBNs: 9783319900070; 3319900072
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 25, 2018).
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