On the Way to the Web The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Berkeley, CA :
Apress : Imprint: Apress,
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2008. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0870-9 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 really cost
- Competition, Cooperation, and Coercion.-'My net’s better than yours!' E-mail interconnections
- Frames and graphics
- Front ends: value-added illusions
- Multi-tasking online
- Online intimidation, theft, and lawsuits
- Hackers and 'Free AOL.-' Million-dollar games.-Simulacrums and lies
- Doing Business Online.-Knowledge services
- Luxury goods
- Publishers and presence
- Experiments in retailing
- Advertising without advertising: sponsored Forums
- Growth: The Second Generation and Specialty Services
- Hosted services and private networks
- USA Today Sports Center
- The WELL
- BIX and WIX. BRS/After Dark. EasyNet
- Apple-Link. Promenade
- ZiffNet
- MCI Mail
- AT&T Net
- Legitimizing E-mail
- PornNet
- More casualties
- Linking to the Net
- E-mail links
- USENET Newsgroups
- Gopher
- FTP
- Modem taxes and other myths
- The plague of the Internet: Spam
- What spammers are really selling
- Social Evolution in Cyberspace.-'When everyone’s online ...' Online romance
- Intimate frauds
- Masquerades and identity theft
- Privacy fears and threats
- Encryption
- Compromising corporate secrets
- Chats and clubs
- Policing the online world
- Turning a buck
- Online crime
- Web psychos and stalkers
- Where the walls have ears (and memories).-The Hidden Network
- Getting the real story
- Bulletin boards behind the Iron Curtain
- Scooping CNN
- Earthquake! Data lines down: the story The Wall Street Journal missed. -Software pirates unbound. Pimps and predators. Pornography unlimited
- And now, the Web ..
- Before the Web
- CompuServe buys The Source
- AOL buys CompuServe
- Mosaic-. Netscape. Bill Gates: The Web as a small phenomenon
- Catching up with Microsoft Internet Explorer
- GNN
- Web myths and fears
- Mainstreaming the Web
- The Corporate World Goes Online
- 'If it’s online, it’s free!' Web expectations and realities
- Dot com bust and boom
- The future
- Timeline.