People use the Web to communicate around the globe.
The story of how such technology came to prominence is engrossing, particularly when the creator of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, writes it himself, as he does in Weaving the Web . From the early days in the 1980s when the author was developing the Web in one lab in Switzerland to the ubiquitous technology used by countless millions today, the author details the roadblocks and breakthroughs that built the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee spends more time discussing the psychology of how he conceived the Web, and how he wanted the pieces and details to work together. No technology is developed in a vacuum, however, and Berners-Lee does an excellent job of giving credit to those whose inventions and inspirations gave the Web key boosts during its nascent stages. In fact, the egos and personalities that had to mesh for the Web to work make for some lively reading and give what could have been a book solely about technology an added depth.