Dot-Dash to Dot.Com How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet /

The profusion of websites and applications that characterise the modern Internet may seem a far cry from the primitive telegraph system of the late 1830s. There is, however, a direct link. The invention of the electric telegraph paved the way for telephone networks which, in turn, laid the foundatio...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Wheen, Andrew (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Σειρά:Springer Praxis Books
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of figures
  • List of pictures
  • List of tables
  • About the author
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The birth of an industry
  • Chapter 2: The telegraph goes global
  • Chapter 3: A gatecrasher spoils the party
  • Chapter 4: Early telephone networks
  • Chapter 5: Going digital
  • Chapter 6: A bit of wet string
  • Chapter 7: The last mile
  • Chapter 8: Computers get chatty
  • Chapter 9: The birth of the Internet
  • Chapter 10: Life in cyberspace
  • Chapter 11: The mobile revolution
  • Chapter 12: When failure is not an option
  • Chapter 13: What comes next?
  • Appendices A - Q
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.