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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. The Web Was Done by Amateurs

A 2012 Reflection of Alan Kay

Author : Marco Aiello

Published in: The Web Was Done by Amateurs

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

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 this first chapter, we look at possible motivations for such a statement and we introduce three important characters that recur throughout the book: the inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee; hypertext pioneer, Ted Nelson; and Alan Kay.

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Footnotes
1
Even though “The Web was made by amateurs” is preferable in English, the book is titled “The Web was done by amateurs” to match literally the statement of Alan Kay. His full interview is reproduced in the appendix.
 
2
The Award was created in 1966 with no monetary value. From 2007 to 2014 it was accompanied by a $250,000 award, and thereafter by $1,000,000.
 
Literature
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Berners-Lee, T., & Fischetti, M. (1999). Weaving the web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the world wide web by its inventor. San Francisco: Harper.
Metadata
Title
The Web Was Done by Amateurs
Author
Marco Aiello
Copyright Year
2018
Book
The Web Was Done by Amateurs

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-90007-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-90008-7

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90008-7_1

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