The World Wide Web

This reading was an enlightening view of the beginning of the World Wide Web's (W3) development. One of the main points made by the authors was to highlight the fact that prevailing technologies do not necessarily need to be the best, but simply good enough; the factors stated that are most helpful to a technology's success are price, availability, and open standards. This is interesting because humans are inherently lazy with certain mental processes. For example, if we know a certain way to get to a final destination, we usually take that route instead of finding the fastest because our knowledge is 'good enough.'

Another main point of the article explains what the world wide web defines. It defines a boundless information world where all information can be received and re-referenced as necessary through the address system (URI). There's a network protocol that helps increase performance and features of the markup language (HTML) used to transmit text or images.

The third main point I've chosen to highlight involves the system's future as the developers hope to construct it. Many of these future hopes have been met like more exciting interfaces, access to for-profit services (online shopping), real time features (conferences/gaming), and the ability for non-professional users to also publish online.