Profiles the young Englishman who is credited with transforming the Internet, which had its origins in a defensive weapon plan, into the global information and communications system called the World Wide Web.
Chronicles the life of Tim Berners-Lee from his birth in London to his development of the tools needed to view Web pages and provides information about how to become a comuter programmer.
In this accessible account, an Internet pioneer describes how he designed the World Wide Web and shares his hopes for its social and technological future. Berners-Lee recounts the early days of creating a hypertext-linked network that would...