Acknowledgments

I got a great Father’s Day card from my 14 year old son this year. When I opened it up, I saw that he wrote the greeting in HTML!

<html>
   <head>
      <title>
         Father’s Day Card
     </title>
   </head>
<body>
   Happy Father’s Day!!!
</body>
</html>

After wiping away the tears, seeing Ted’s card reinforced for me the increasing importance of Web-based applications. The Web permeates our social infrastructure. Whether you’re a business person wanting to increase the visibility of your business, an avid reader trying to find an out-of-print book, a student fetching homework assignments from a school Web site, or any other producer or consumer of information, you touch the Internet.

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