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Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business (Hardcover)

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Robert Reid explores the history of the Net from a business perspective--how a communication system nominally built for national defense and in effect taken over by education and research came to erupt as the most important medium since television--and with greater speed and intensity than any communication medium ever. Each chapter examines the Web's business development through the story of one of its pioneers--including Marc Andreeson of Netscape, Mark Pesce of VRML, Jerry Yang of Yahoo!, Halsey Minor of CNET, and more. Its an exciting story of frantic activity in a whirlwind environment and of the individuals who rode the tornado to success.

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The origins of the rapidly evolving World Wide Web extend back only to late 1993. Reid, himself a veteran of web business ventures, describes how eight web pioneers and their businesses laid the groundwork for the web today. Drawing on interviews with founders and others, he chronicles the development of Netscape, RealAudio, the Java and VRML programming languages, I/PRO and web advertising, Yahoo!, HotWired, and CNET. Each of the book's eight main segments combines a company history with a biographical sketch of one of the company's entrepreneurial founders. The introduction by technology analyst J. Neil Weintraut clearly delineates the web's uniqueness as an efficient information medium. Despite several typos and the absence of documentation, this book is clearly written, providing good, solid information on an industry that is so new that details are sometimes hard to find. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries serving readers interested in either the web or in doing business on it.?Lawrence R. Maxted, Gannon Univ., Erie, Pa.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 19, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471171875
ISBN-13: 978-0471171874
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,309,955 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Literary Machines by Ted Nelson on page 181
The New Journalism (Picador Books) by Tom Wolfe on page 313

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1.0 out of 5 stars A ghastly revisionist history for businessmen, April 4, 1999

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This review is from: Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business (Paperback)

This book is a revisionist history which attempts to give the credit for the development of the web to businessmen, and almost completely ignores the people who actually designed the architecture of the web. Even Tim Berners-Lee gets only a token mention; and Ted Nelson, who invented hypertext, multimedia and "linking", is completely ignored.

The first chapter tries to credit Netscape with the invention of the web, and pretends that they lead the development of HTML. The truth, of course, is that Netscape has never managed to fully implement any of the HTML standards, let alone improve on them. Most of the HTML "improvements" thought of as Netscape's were defined in HTML 3.0 long before Netscape implemented them via gratuitously incompatible tags.

As the book goes on it gets even worse. CNET and HotWired as architects of the web? Yeah, right, and I suppose the Psychic Friends Network invented the telephone? I'll be generous, and assume that this book happened because some poor soul started believing the nonsense Internet companies put out in their press releases. The alternative is that it's a deliberate attempt to re-write history. Unfortunately, judging from the 'professional' reviews there must be plenty of suckers who actually do think CNET and WIRED magazine invented the web. I wish it was possible to give this book a score of zero; you could learn more about the real history of the web by spending half an hour browsing the W3C web site.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Insight for the Intrepid, June 3, 1997

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Thorough, throughful and provocative. A "business biography" that was written in real time. Reid takes the reader on the roller coaster of innovation and drive to commericalize the some of aspects of the 'web. Contrary to the viewpoint of some readers, Reid adequately describes the academic roots of the web. Yet, as is stated in the title, Reid masterfully articulates the stories that are being re-written hourly that will alter the future of business and commerce

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5.0 out of 5 stars Facts, intrigue, inspiration, May 13, 1997

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A great story - even better since its true. Perfect for students, entrepreneurs and web surfers.

Other books that come along later will be jaded by knowing too much. Only this book can tell it how it happened, since it was written at the same time; giving the reader a real-time perspective, not revisionist.

Reid gives his book the same kind of drive and intensity that the early web architects must have had!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Architects did a lot to create the Web
Robert Reid dives into the history that created the web as we know it today, for the internet in 1994 and even earlier was nothing like what it has grown to become. Read more

Published 25 days ago by Martine Raes

5.0 out of 5 stars Reportage from the [...] genesis
Reid wrote a book that covered many of the industries luminaries including Jerry Yang and Marc Andreessen and other forgotten people like Mark Pesce who dreamed too far ahead of... Read more

Published on November 12, 2007 by Gms Carroll

2.0 out of 5 stars Some of the background, but not the full story
It has been a few months since I read the book, just never getting back to writing a review. For whatever reason tonight is the night. Read more

Published on November 18, 2003 by T. OBrien

2.0 out of 5 stars A pre-dot bomb period piece
Reid's book can safely be characterized as a pre-dot bomb period piece. He writes the history of the Web as the history of making money in wonderously new ways. Read more

Published on October 31, 2003 by Carlos Gardel

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, Timely, but flawed
The main impression you take away from this book is that there are a lot of millionaires in the Internet world that got there by accident and timing rather than outright... Read more

Published on July 20, 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars An education and entertaining as well.
You learn about the web; what it is and where it might be going. The introduction by Neil Weintraut is a primer on the facts, figures and infrastructure of the web and, in... Read more

Published on June 14, 1997

1.0 out of 5 stars What about Tim Berners-Lee?
This is realy a PR puff for Marc Andressen and Netscape masquerading as a history. Despite its title the book is startling for its ommissions. Read more

Published on May 12, 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read on the momentum and importance of the Web.
Although you will know these key Web players well when finished reading, Architects of the Web is not just about personalities. Read more

Published on May 9, 1997

4.0 out of 5 stars Rewarding. Provides thought-provoking information.
Architects of the Web helps you make sense of the big-picture changes wrought by the Web. Reid is a great story teller. Read more

Published on April 16, 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely a "What's Cool" and "What's Hot" selection
Click on the order button for this one! Architects of the Web tops the lists of "What's hot" about the Internet category. Read more

Published on April 9, 1997

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