Tim Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide Web (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) (Unlocking the Secrets of Science)

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This Library Binding Book item from Mitchell Lane Publishers was reviewed on 12-Oct-2008.

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1) Library Binding Book Tim Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide Web (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) by Mitchell Lane Publishers. I take exception whenever there are books written for our children that are factually inaccurate. Reading only the synopsis of the book, I am taken aback, and am curious about the accuracy of the remainder of the work.

"In three months in the fall of 1989, Berners-Lee used the Internet, a discarded defensive weapon of the United States government and its system of sending information over telephone lines, and invented the World Wide Web."

During the fall of 1989, the Internet was a burgeoning research network funded joinly by the Defense Department and the National Science Foundation, as an offshoot of the DoD´s ARPANET project. At that time, the NSF had funded the upgrades to dedicated links for 13 regional research and educational networks in the US. It was hardly a "a discarded defensive weapon of the United States government".

Authors need to verify sources and correct material, especially before supplying it to our children.¤

2) Library Binding Book Tim Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide Web (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) by Mitchell Lane Publishers. In three months in the fall of 1989, Berners-Lee used the Internet, a discarded defensive weapon of the United States government and its system of sending information over telephone lines, and invented the World Wide Web. Today the World Wide Web exists in every country, reaching tens of millions of homes around the world. People have become friends with other people they will never visit because of it. People conduct business and do shopping without ever leaving their homes. Someday soon elections might be held on it. Every year, it seems, humans find new and better ways to communicate through it.

Berners-Lee remains humble today about his achievement, which he gave away to the world.

"I pieced it together as I pursued my regular work and personal life," he explains in his book Weaving the Web. "But many other people, most of them unknown, contributed essential ingredients, in much the same almost random fashion. A group of individuals holding a common dream and working together at a distance brought about a great change."¤

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