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Tim Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide Web (Unlocking the Secrets of Science)
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Author: Ann G. Gaines
List Price: $17.95
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ISBN: 1584150963
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. (01 November, 2001)
Edition: Library Binding
Sales Rank: 1,323,609
Average Customer Rating: 1 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Historical Inconsistency in the Synopsis
I take exception whenever there are books written for our children that are factually inaccurate. Reading only the synopsis of the book, I am taken aback, and am curious about the accuracy of the remainder of the work."In three months in the fall of 1989, Berners-Lee used the Internet, a discarded defensive weapon of the United States government and its system of sending information over telephone lines, and invented the World Wide Web." During the fall of 1989, the Internet was a burgeoning research network funded joinly by the Defense Department and the National Science Foundation, as an offshoot of the DoD's ARPANET project. At that time, the NSF had funded the upgrades to dedicated links for 13 regional research and educational networks in the US. It was hardly a "a discarded defensive weapon of the United States government". Authors need to verify sources and correct material, especially before supplying it to our children.
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