Weaving the Web.

The article discusses the development of the World Wide Web by inventor Tim Berners-Lee, noting his winning of the 2016 A.M. Turning Award. Topics include his work at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), his invention of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Markup Langu...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 21 - 23
Main Author:	Savage, Neil
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jun2017
Subjects:	Berners-Lee, Tim, 1955- World Wide Web European Organization for Nuclear Research HTTP (Computer network protocol) HTML (Document markup language) ACM A.M. Turing Award
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article discusses the development of the World Wide Web by inventor Tim Berners-Lee, noting his winning of the 2016 A.M. Turning Award. Topics include his work at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), his invention of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and his beliefs about Net neutrality and open access to Internet information.