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This particular issue, Volume 1 Number 3, begins with an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World-Wide-Web and currently Director of the World-Wide-Web Consortium. It then presents a collection of technical essays on 3 main themes: web surveys and demographics, traffic monitoring and visualization, and proxy caches. The articles describing how islands with relatively poor Internet connectivity (Great Britain and New Zealand) used distributed caching to improve service to the entire nation were especially interesting.
The article by Tim Bray titled "Measuring the Web" is worth the price of the book in itself, providing statistics for HTML file sizes, numbers of embedded GIFs, incoming and outgoing links, and so on, based on retrieval of some 11 million web pages from over 200,000 web servers. Bray's 3-D graphic techniques for portrayal of web server "neighborhoods," "connectedness," and "neighborhoods" are quite clever and perhaps point the way toward VRML navigation schemes.
The World-Wide-Web Journal will not appeal to the average HTML hacker, but sophisticated webmasters will find something useful in every issue, and the series will undoubtedly become a treasured historical resource.
-- Ray Duncan
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