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Title: Really interesting, but lacks TCP/IP background information
Review: A most interesting history/sociology of the Web, the book is well written and very accessible if a little "chatty". For the serious minded it gives us acronyms and directions to watch out for. I feel there are a couple of gaps. I would have welcomed more on the TCP/IP protocol stack, how this foundation was established, how secure it is, and likely future directions plus implications for the Web. I also feel the author skipped over the period in Spring 1995 when ISPs' ability to dynamically allocate dot addresses opened up the Web to those of us who were mystified by the TCP/IP stack. This appeared to lead to the explosive success of the Web among ordinary folk.
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