American Libraries and the Internet: The Social Construction of Web Appropriation and Use By Bin Li

American Libraries and the Internet: The Social Construction of W ...

Chapter 1:

The World Wide Web: A General Introduction

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Chapter 1

The World Wide Web: A General Introduction

The World Wide Web, a graphical point-and-click browser and the infrastructure supporting it, is the most significant Internet application to date. According to one of its inventors, Tim Berners-Lee, the Web can be described as “the universe of global network-accessible information” or “an abstract space with which people can interact, and is currently chiefly populated by interlinked pages of text, images, and animations, with occasional sounds, three-dimensional worlds, and videos” (Berners-Lee, 1996, ¶ 1).