The Web is 20 years old this month. We all know how it works, what it can do and what it can't do, right? Hardly."The Web's remarkable progress to date has been quite gratifying to me," says Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web and first took it live in December 1990. "But the Web is by no means finished. Every bit of past and future advancement rests on two things: technological protocols and social conventions. The protocols, like HTTP and HTML, determine how computers interact. Social conventions, such as the incentive to create links or the rules of engagement on a social networking site, are about how people like to, and are allowed to, interact. We still know surprisingly little about these technical and social mechanisms."
To read the full, original article click on this link: The Web Turns 20: Web Science Reveals Human Interactions, Part 4 of 4: Scientific American
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