By the mid-2000s, the practice of scientific computing had been radically altered by the mature Internet and Web. Recognizing that their "Numerical Recipes" books were increasingly valued more for their explanatory text than for their code examples, the authors significantly expanded the scope of the book, and significantly rewrote a large part of the text. They continued to include code, still printed in the book, now in C++, for every method discussed. The Third Edition was also released as an electronic book, eventually made available on the Web for free (with limited page views) or by paid or institutional subscription (with unlimited page views).