Bibliography - WorldWideWeb

The following lists papers and articles about the W3 initiative and related matters which serve as essential background reading or academic references.

Foundational Papers

Introduction to W3

T.J. Berners-Lee, R. Cailliau, J-F Groff, B. Pollermann, CERN, "World-Wide Web: The Information Universe", published in Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy, Vol. 2 No 1, pp. 52-58 Spring 1992, Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT, USA.

"The global hypertext dream comes true in practice."

Technical Overview of W3

T.J. Berners-Lee, R. Cailliau, J-F Groff, B. Pollermann, CERN, "World-Wide Web: An Information Infrastructure for High-Energy Physics", Presented at Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering for High Energy Physics in La Londe, France, January 1992.

Aimed at system managers and software engineers. This paper details the W3 architecture, usage graphs, and hypertext formats.

Reference Guides & Proposals

The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog: Krol, Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, 1992. ISBN: 1-56592-025-2. A foundational text for professionals using the internet, featuring a specific chapter on WWW.
Universal Document Identifiers (UDI): A proposal produced for the March 1992 IETF regarding the naming and addressing of web resources. This is a critical document for understanding the origin of URLs.
The "W3 Book": A 50-page technical compilation occasionally dumped from the web hypertext onto paper for offline study.

Visions of Hypertext

Electronic publishing and visions of hypertext: Published in Physics World, June 1992. Tim Berners-Lee discusses the impact of global hypertext on academic publishing.
The Potential of Computer Networks: The Economist, June 20th-26th 1992. A feature on the transformative potential of networks like WAIS and WWW.

Tim Berners-Lee