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Mesmerized by the Moving Image
A combination of an inquisitive young mind, lots of spare time and inspiring reading has propelled many inventors into their successful careers. For...
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The Pacific-Ocean Internet
The Web is an application running on top of the Internet. In this chapter, we briefly overview the history of the Internet, from the ARPANET project...
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Should a New Web Be Designed?
In this final chapter of the book, we reflect on the history of the Web and its possible future evolutions.
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The Pervasive Future
The Web has evolved tremendously in its relatively short 30 years of existence. In this chapter, we consider current trends in Web-related...
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Patching the Web
The original design of the Web is based on stateless interactions and users following textual hyperlinks. Early in the history of the Web, this...
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The Browser Lament
The first browser was built by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. With the growing popularity of the Web, many more were released, and given the economic...
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Internet in Your Pocket
Another huge technological development had been happening in parallel to the ongoing digital revolution in mobile phones: the large-scale utilization...
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Hypermedia Until the Web
Writers have been experimenting with text fruition and trying to go beyond the traditional book format for several decades. In this chapter, we...
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The Self-Organizing Web
One of the beauties of the Web is its lack of centralized control and the possibility for anyone to contribute content and functionalities. The Web...
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Radio at War
As soon as MarconiMarconi, Guglielmo ’s marine radios became available, the Navies of the world saw the potential of being able to transmit messages...
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The Original Web Pattern
Three protocols lie at the core of the original Web proposal: the Uniform Resource Locator, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, and the HyperText Markup...
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The Unexploited Patch
The Semantic Web is an extension to enable the semantic annotation of textual pages. It is a patch to the Web as it addresses the uplifting of the...
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The Web Was Done by Amateurs
In 2012, the ACM Turing Award winner Alan Kay released an interview with Dr. Dobb’s Journal in which he stated “the Web was done by amateurs.” In...
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Patch IV: Web Services
Web services are composable, autonomous computational units that can be accessed via the Internet. They can be seen as an extension to the Web that...
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Correction to: The Web Was Done by Amateurs
Some chapters in the initially published version contain a wrong affiliation of the author.
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The Golden Age of Wireless
Finding a way to modulate radio waves with sound not only simplified the communications process, but it also gave birth to the very first media...
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Tsushima Strait
New inventions sometimes act as the catalysts for events that change the history of the entire world. One such case that had enormous consequences...
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Home Sweet Home
The process of resurrecting yesterday's stale pizza has more in common with wireless short range communications than most of us expect.
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“It’s of No Use Whatsoever”
Inventors seem to come in two basic categories: the first group includes those who are simply happy to tinker with something new and enticing, whilst...
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The American Way
Although the United StatesUnited States, the had managed to build a comprehensive first-generationFirst-Generation (1G) analog network, the major...