Signals from Our Futures Past

Signals from Our Futures Past

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Signals from Our Futures Past
Toward a universal linked information system.

Toward a universal linked information system.

Happy 31st Birthday to the WWW

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Mike Amundsen
Aug 06, 2024
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Today is the recognized birthday of the World Wide Web. The information platform launched by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. To celebrate, here's an excerpt from my book "RESTful Web API Patterns and Practices Cookbook"

More than a decade before Roy Fielding wrote his dissertation that caused the explosion of Web design known as "REST", Berners-Lee authored a 1…

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