Overview

• WWW Design Choices
• Requirements
• Web architecure
• Hypertext model
• URLs
• The Name myth
• HTTP: RFC822 pros and cons
• HTTP: RPC pros and cons
• TCP pros and cons
• SGML pros and cons
• Preconceptions
• The winding road to adoption
• The slow bang
• Postconceptions
• The present
• The future
• The W3 Consortium