Talk:Computers & Society/World Wide Web

I want to use some "open source material" related to the WWW. Naturally, first port of call will be Wikipedia. Maybe there is also some good wikibook I can refer to?

I have begun to develop the section on XLink (Михал Орела 09:02, 12 July 2008 (UTC))

Hypertext
Added in a [surprising] text on hypertext:

«What if we regarded the defect in Wilkins' system as its prophetic virtue? What if we treated Wilkins as if he were obscurely groping towards a notion for which we have only recently invented a name — hypertext? … If this were the case, many of [Wilkins'] system's contradictions would disappear, and Wilkins could be considered as a pioneer in the idea of a flexible and multiple organization of complex data … his [project] was instead the search for ways to articulate all that natural languages permit us to say.» (Umberto Eco, The Search for the Perfect Language, p.258-9, FontanaPress: London, 1997.)

It appears that there was a not unexpected pre-history to the emergence of the hypertext. (Михал Орела)

History
It is clear that a preHistory of the WWW and the Hypertext is needed. :) (Михал Орела 08:26, 29 August 2008 (UTC))

Notes etc
Added in the usual Notes, Reading links, and e-Links sections. (Михал Орела 08:36, 29 August 2008 (UTC))