Tag Archives: Wikipedia Books

“HTML” (2011)

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A terse but rich overview of HTML, XHTML, HTML5, and Dynamic HTML. Includes lists of HTML elements, entities, and colors. The latter part of the book goes into greater detail on specific subjects.

In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was a contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system. Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in the last part of 1990. In that year, Berners-Lee and CERN data systems engineer Robert Cailliau collaborated on a joint request for funding, but the project was not formally adopted by CERN. In his personal notes from 1990 he lists “some of the many areas in which hypertext is used” and puts an encyclopedia first.

“Frank Zappa” (2011)

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An exhaustive reference that spans Frank Zappa’s thirty-year career.

  • Direct link to the PDF file
  • 11.4 MB
  • 492 pages
  • Confirmed virus-free by AVG Free 2012
  • Made using the Wikipedia Book Creator, and Adobe Acrobat 9

Zappa attempted to earn a living as a musician and composer, and played different nightclub gigs, some with a new version of The Blackouts. Financially more rewarding were Zappa’s earliest professional recordings, two soundtracks for the low-budget films The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962) and Run Home Slow (1965). The former score was commissioned by actor-producer Timothy Carey and recorded in 1961. It contains many themes that appeared on later Zappa records. The latter soundtrack was recorded in 1963 after the film was completed, but it was commissioned by one of Zappa’s former high school teachers in 1959 and Zappa may have worked on it before the film was shot. Excerpts from the soundtrack can be heard on the posthumous album The Lost Episodes (1996).