Literature/2000/Gillies


 * http://www.amazon.com/How-Web-was-Born-Story/dp/0192862073/

Contents

 * What Are We Calling This Thing?

Excerpts

 * The World Wide Web is like an encyclopaedia, a telephone directory, a record collection, a video shop, and Speakers' Corner all rolled into one and accessible through any computer. It has become so successful that to many it is synonymous with the Internet; but in reality the two are quite different. The Internet is like a network of electronic roads criss-crossing the planet -- the much-hyped information superhighway. The Web is just one of many services using that network, just as many different kinds of vehicle use the roads. On the Internet, the Web just happens to be by far the most popular. The arrival of the Web in 1990 was to the Internet like the arrival of the internal combustion engine to the country lane. Internet transport would never be the same again. (opening paragraph, p. 1)

Wikimedia

 * World Wide Web