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

• 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
• Θέματα: Engineering.; Computer communication systems.; Computers.; Electronic circuits.; Popular works.; Electrical engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; History of Computing.; Computer Communication Networks.; Electronic Circuits and Devices.; Popular Science, general.

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...

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.