Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with co-creating the World Wide Web and still participates in the World Wide Web consortium to oversee WWW protocols and regulations. The World Wide Web (WWW) was designed to add more functionality to the already existing Internet. In his book Weaving the Web, Berners-Lee describes the relationship between the World Wide Web and the Internet. The Internet provides the underlying structure and infrastructure for the World Wide Web, but the latter is the user-friendly, interactive, and dynamic means of cross-computer communication. The basis for the success of the WWW is hypertext.
In the Forward to Weaving the Web, Michael Dertousos of MIT notes, "As technologists and entrepreneurs were launching or merging companies to exploit the Web, they seemed fixated on one question: 'How can I make the Web mine?' Meanwhile, Tim was asking, 'How can I make the Web yours?'" This comment lauds Tim Berners-Lee's attitude toward the Web, which continues to propel Web philosophy until this day. The propagation of free sites and the free interchange of ideas is testimony to Berners-Lee's foresight.
3. One telling quote in the book: "During the meeting several people commented on how surprised they were that Marx, who had been so vocal on the Internet, was so quiet in person." Most people who use the Web to chat or e-mail have experienced the difference between an individual's Web personality and their in-person demeanor. This sentence draws attention to how the Web has changed human relationships, human behavior, and human society.
4. Question for classmate: How do you see the Web changing in the future, if at all? What potential new developments might be on the horizon? Would you propose any changes?
5. The Web is far better off the way it is today, without the imposition of government control or especially taxation. In fact, it is remarkable that the Web has remained relatively "pure" regarding the absence of governmental controls. The Web should continue to be free from unnecessary costs or controls.
Weaving Power of Athena and Penelope Homer's tale of the Odyssey is populated by many female characters, ranging in nature from the silent and submissive to the ferociously lethal. If one were to pick out two women who are most influential in the shaping of the story, however, the choice would certainly linger on the strange dyad of Athena and Penelope. Athena serves as the direct initiator of much of
children cope with friendship and death after reading Charlottes' Web? Academic Research: The book, Charlotte's Web is probably the best selling paperback and is really a story about a farm, and how friendships develop between different animals and how they help each other. In this book, the most important development is the friendship that develops between Wilbur and Charlotte. Wilbur is a pig and Charlotte is a spider which turns out
Walt Whitman's ten-line free verse poem, "A Noiseless Patient Spider" combines metaphor and metaphysics to convey a sense of meaning and wonderment. Whitman draws parallels between the mysterious arachnid and the equally nebulous human soul. The action of spinning and weaving webs becomes a workable metaphor for Whitman's spiritual conception of the human desire to understand the cosmos and our place within it. The spider builds webs that link disparate
Among the great features of Gothenburg is the Gothenburg Opera House, the Liseberg amusement park and Universeum, a great place to take the family because kids will love the discovery and science center at Universeum. Boat trips are available that take visitors out into the harbor and into the archipelago further north. Marstand in the archipelago and is well-known as a great place for yachting and yacht racing, and it
I have a knack for computer science/web design. In middle school, my uncle showed me how to upgrade the memory on my desktop computer. It was not long before I was installing systems, detecting and resolving computer issues and replacing hard drives on laptops. My first course at (name university) continued this interest with projects using Perl, CGI and PHP. Later, I added Macromedia Flash for animation to my repertoire
Ceremonies and Celebrations The Coast Salish people are people from Nations and Tribes whose traditional roots are found along the west coast of British Columbia and Washington State. Actually, the Coast Salish region expands from the northern Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland regions to western part of the Washington State. Most of the Coast Salish First Nations Groups are found in British Columbia and Washington State ("Coast Salish Fast Facts," p.1).