Weaving the Web

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1. WillAdamsSep 2026
   The other books on hardware from this timeframe such as Tracy Kidder's _The Soul of a New Machine_ or Jerry Kaplan's _StartUp_ or Andy Hertzfeld's _Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made_ (available as: https://folklore.org/0-index.html) are quite striking and forthright in their discussion of hardware limitations and the ingenuity needed to get things done.

   The book _CAD History_, available on-line at: https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/introduction has a bit on Xanadu from the Autodesk end of things.

   Or, contrast the far more prosaic _Weaving the Web_ by Tim Berners-Lee and esp. take note of compromises such as URL changing from Universal Resource Locator to Uniform Resource Locator.

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2. apitmanDec 2025
   Can also recommend Weaving the Web by TBL.
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3. apitmanOct 2024
   I recommend reading the short book Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee.
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4. WillAdamsAug 2024
   Folks who want a bit more background on this should read Tim Berners-Lee's book _Weaving the Web_ (which to some degree was written using the "Navipress" web browser since it also functioned as an interactive editor (for sites which supported the "Push" protocol --- later it was bought by AOL and became "AOLPress")

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821987.Weaving_the_Web

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5. cxrAug 2024
   gemini:// and spartan:// resources are part of the Web. (So is Gopherspace, for that matter.) They're not mutually exclusive; the Web is not HTML over HTTP. To focus on one example: Gopher space is a subset of the Web.*

   I encourage everybody to read TBL's book Weaving The Web and his other expository writing about the birth of the Web, the thinking that went into URIs/UDIs, and the absence of a universal information space—the hole that existed before he invented the Web to fill it.

   * whether mainstream browsers by the big tech companies support or not is a separate matter

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6. cxrAug 2024
   > you could also consider a wider definition

   That's an understatement, which is sort of the whole point of what I wrote:

   > I encourage everybody to read TBL's book Weaving The Web and his other expository writing

   People who think they know what the Web is but thinks it doesn't include Gopherspace are simply wrong; they are ignorant—in the literal, denotative sense of the word.

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