The first part of this book is about the history and origins of the Web. It was interesting to see that Berners-Lee didn't really invent that much - he simply brought together a bunch of existing technologies in a novel way. I'm not saying that this wasn't brilliant, as such vision is very impressive.
I was surprised to find that I was such an early adopter, as I started using the Web in around 1995 and it was really quite new then.
The latter half of the book is much more about his ideas for the future of the Web [as he saw it 5 years ago when he wrote the book]. Although a lot of this is rather philosophical [e.g. how will it affect the way we think in the future], he did foresee some of the current trends towards user interaction: Wikis and blogging.
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