web/Zalewski本/まえがきについて、ここに記述してください。

PREFACE
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Just fifteen years ago, the Web was as simple as it was unimportant:
q querky mechanism that allowed a handful of students, plus a bunch of asocial, basement-dwelling geeks,
to visit each other's home pages dedicated to science, pets, or poetry.

Today, it is the platform of choice for writing complex, interactive applicatios 
(from mail clients to image editors to computer games)
and a mediam reaching hundreds of millions of casual users around the globe.

It is also an sesseitial tool of commerce, important enough to be credited for causing
a recession when the 1999 to 2001 dot-com bubble burst.
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15年前ならWebは重要ではなかったし、単純だった。

だが、今日では数億人が利用する複雑なプラットフォームになった。

経済面でも必須のツールである。