The Web Was Done by Amateurs: A Reflection on One of the Largest Collective Systems Ever Engineered

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 The Web Was Done by Amateurs
	1.1 Text Versus Objects
	1.2 The Birth of the Web
Part I The Origins
	2 The Pacific-Ocean Internet
		2.1 ARPANET
		2.2 Comments, Please!
		2.3 The Internet
		2.4 Why Is It a Natural Resource?
	3 Hypermedia Until the Web
		3.1 How We May Think
		3.2 The oN-Line System (NLS)
		3.3 Xanadu
		3.4 HyperCard
		3.5 Enquire and the Birth of the Web
Part II The Web
	4 The Original Web Pattern
		4.1 Uniform Resource Locator
		4.2 HyperText Transfer Protocol
		4.3 HyperText Markup Language
	5 The Browser Lament
		5.1 The Browser Is an Application
		5.2 Early Browsers
			WorldWideWeb Browser
			Lynx
			Mosaic
		5.3 Netscape
		5.4 Microsoft\'s Internet Explorer
		5.5 Google\'s Chrome
Part III The Patches
	6 Patching the Web
		6.1 Patch I: Cookies
		6.2 Patch II: Run Anywhere
		6.3 Patch III: Scripting
	7 Patch IV: Web Services
		7.1 Securing the Intranet
		7.2 Corba and IDLs
		7.3 The Magic Triangle
		7.4 Service-Oriented Computing
		7.5 A Personal Tale: Compose It Now!
		7.6 The Patch
		7.7 Who\'s Serving?
		7.8 XML Web Services Versus the REST
		7.9 Vaporizing Services
	8 The Unexploited Patch
		8.1 The Semantic Gap
		8.2 Subsumptions Subsumed by Subsumptions
		8.3 The Patch
Part IV System Engineering
	9 The Self-Organizing Web
		9.1 The Size and Shape of the Web
		9.2 Self-Organization and Complex Networks
		9.3 Searching the Web
		9.4 Self-Organization, Patching, and the Role of Amateurs
	10 The Pervasive Future
		10.1 Apps
		10.2 Web (on the Internet) of Things
		10.3 The Web and Artificial Intelligence
	11 Should a New Web Be Designed?
Correction to: The Web Was Done by Amateurs
A Dr. Dobb\'s Interview with Alan Kay
	A.1 A Note About Dr. Dobb\'s Journal
	A.2 The Interview
	Childhood as a Prodigy
	The European Invasion in Computer Science
	Computing as Pop Culture
	The Browser: A Lament
	Objects
	Programming
	Group Work
References
Index