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  title info:
    title: On the Way to the Web
    sub title: The Secret History of the Internet and its Founders
  name:
    name part: Banks, Michael A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 200 p. online resource.
  abstract: On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders is 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 book will introduce you to the innovators who laid the foundation for the Internet and the World Wide Web, the man who invented online chat, and the people who invented the products all of us use online every day. Learn where, when, how and why the Internet came into being, and exactly what hundreds of thousands of people were doing online before the Web. See who was behind it all, and what inspired them.
  table of contents: Making Contact.-Online in the 80s -- Early entrepreneurs -- Timesharing and PSNs -- Compu-Serve and Comp-U-Card -- Wasted resources and personal computers -- The prefect business opportunity -- Design and beta-testing the first online service -- Hacker toys or consumer service? -- The Source.-The uncertain entrepreneur -- From liquor to consulting -- Recycling hardware and ideas -- Telephones and computers -- A wireless Internet -- Videotext, cable TV, and computers -- The off-the-shelf computer network -- Tariffs and information providers -- Backers -- Opening Day: 'This is the beginning of the Information Age!' -- Content and Competition.-Revenue issues. Playing games at 300 bps -- News -- The problem with online shopping -- Downloadable software -- Advertising and online presence -- Online gaming. Paying the bills -- New social networks -- Mainstreaming online -- In search of cheap connections -- Chatting: the killer app -- What it looked like -- Looking Backward -- How’d we get here? -- The Victorian Internet -- Hyperlinks in the 1950s -- ARPAnet -- Packet-switching -- The knowledge industry moves in (Dow Jones, Knowledge Index, et al) -- Corporate computing -- Modems and home computers -- Bulletin boards (BBSs) -- 'What do we do next?' The noble idea -- E-mail and one-liners -- FTP, Gopher, and USENET -- More Entrepreneurs -- Modem millionaires -- The new competition (PLink, QLink, DELPHI, and more) -- Content is king. Publishing, percentages, and partnerships -- Digressions: downloadable music, motives, and games -- Variations on a theme: Cable TV and phone nets, videogame consoles online (battle of the mediums) -- Downloadable software and shareware.-Heavy Hitters and Growing Pains -- SIGs and Forums. FSBO and auctions -- Online casualties -- GEnie -- AOL -- Prodigy (How not to run an online service) -- Advertising wars -- Viruses -- Pranked and turfed! The numbers increase -- Scammers and hackers move in -- Billing: Flat rate versus by-the-minute -- What it …
  note: by Michael A. Banks.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science, general
  classification: QA75.5-76.95
  classification: 004
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781430208709
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0870-9
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