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Web Design/ Web Programming Free Ebook : The Art & Science of We
The Web may be growing fast, but its foundation stretches back through years and decades of electronic publishing history. In this chapter, we'll look back at how the intersection of traditional publishing and early databases influenced the way the Web was built. Why is that important? Because we need to deconstruct the basic philosophy of Web design: how the integration of structure, style, and behavior form the basis of our thinking about development on the Web today. Then, from the theoretical to the concrete, we'll look at how that underlying theory applies to the technologies that make up the Web, as well as the collaboration of Web teams, and the interconnection of the people and the technologies they use. Through that lens, we can look at today's Web interfaces.
Charles Goldfarb liked to get people lost.
It was 1966. Two years out of Harvard, the young lawyer was already bored with the frustrating redundancy of preparing briefs for the firm that employed him. To burn off some energy, Charles would spend countless hours working on his hobby: organizing Boston-area sports car rallies.
As "rallymaster," he would plot courses for the roadsters on maps, then convert the courses to a detailed set of instructions. It was a game for Charles, and he enjoyed encoding logic puzzles into his crib sheets. Instead of a simple list of instructions, he would add commands like "Repeat the last six steps replacing 'right turn' with 'left turn'."
Eventually, a friend told Charles his routes were just like computer programs. "Really?" he replied. "What's a computer program?" Soon, he found that IBM would pay him a comfortable salary to write his logic-based instructions for computers, rather than driving enthusiasts. Suddenly, if you'll excuse the pun, his career took a permanent turn.
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