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Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century.His creation has already changed the way people do business, entertain themselves, exchange ideas, and socialize with one another. With new online businesses and communities forming every day, the full impact of Berners-Lee's grand scheme has yet to be fully realized.

Now, this low-profile genius tells his own story of the Web's origins--from its radical introduction and the creation of the now ubiquitous WWW and HTTP acronyms to how he sees the future development of this revolutionary medium.

Berners-Lee offers insights to help listeners understand the true nature of the Web, enabling them to use it to their fullest advantage. He shares his views on such critical issues as censorship, privacy, and the increasing power of software companies in the online world.

Here's yet another history of the Web, this time by it's creator; that is, the person who figured out how to connect documents and files in different computers to one another. Tim Berners-Lee actually did this, using HTML and HTTP, coining the name "World Wide Web," as well. In lecture style he recounts the chronology of these events and other players in the field. The book and his narration provide a forum to discuss his philosophy of open access, self-policing and other sensitive issues such as censorship, privacy and the influence of software and hardware companies on the Web and the Internet. Passionately presented, WEAVING THE WEB is an insider's look at one of the most influential phenomena in today's society. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

 

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, is currently the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the coordinating body for Web development, and he occupies the 3Com Founders chair at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Recipient of numerous awards, he received the distinguished MacArthur Fellowship in 1998. He lives in Cambridge, MA.