
58 ◾ Web 2.0 and Beyond: Principles and Technologies
What was important in this early hacker culture was that code could be shared, exam-
ined by programmer peers, modied and then shared again. ere was also a culture of
giing—of freely contributing help to other people’s soware development projects in the
expectation of help with one’s own projects.
ese values of sharing and giing fed into something quite concrete in the development
of the early Web. e earliest browsers developed by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at
CERN and other research establishments all featured a ‘View Source’ facility which allowed
the reader of an HTM ...