On the Way to the Web The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders

Name: On the Way to the Web The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
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ISBN: 9781430208693

ISBN-10: 1430208694

ISBN-13: 9781430208693

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael A. Banks

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Discover the fascinating story of the early days of the Internet and the parallel developments in the alternate world of computer bulletin board systems. In On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders , an absorbing chronicle of the inventive, individualistic, and often cantankerous individuals who set the Internet free, Michael A. Banks describes how the online population created a new culture and turned a new frontier into their vision of the future. This is not the story of DARPAnet, CERN, Tim BernersLee, Vinton Cerf, and other familiar names whose tales have been recorded elsewhere. Nor is it preoccupied with serial ports, phaseshift keying, or similar…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Apress L. P.
Publication date: 7/25/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 218
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




Looking Back: Where Did It All Begin?



In the Money



Making Contact With Compuserve



The Source



Dis-Content and Conflict



Evolution



Online Experiments



Trials and Errors



The Second Wave



Aol Gestation



The Third Wave



In With the New Out With the Old



Aol Evolves: Expansion, Integration, and Success



Prodigy: The Flat-Rate Pioneer Who Just Didn't Get It



Moving to the Net


Afterword: Omissions. Additions, and Corrections



Online Timeline



Bibliography



Founders


Index