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

Banks, Michael A.

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ISBN 10: 1430250747 ISBN 13: 9781430250746

Casa editrice: Apress, 2012

Riassunto

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 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

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Michael A. Banks is the author of more than 40 books, among them several titles that deal with Internet topics, including The eBay Survival Guide; Web Psychos, Stalkers, and Pranksters; The Modem Reference; PC Confidential; and Welcome to CompuServe. He is coauthor of CROSLEY: The Story of Two Brothers and the Business Empire that Transformed the Nation (Clerisy, 2006), the biography of twentieth-century industrialist/entrepreneur and communications magnate Powel Crosley, Jr. (This book made the New York Times extended bestseller list, the Wall Street Journal hardcover business book bestseller list, and the Business Week bestseller list. Having sold 45,000 copies during its first three months of existence, it received a full-page writeup in the February 12, 2007, issue of Publishers Weekly.) He has written hundreds of magazine articles and served as a contributing editor and columnist for Computer Shopper, Windows, and other magazines. Banks has been online since 1979, when he caught his first glimpse of CompuServe. During the 1980s, he was involved in a number of Internet firsts, including online book promotion. He has helped maintain bulletin board systems, was a special interest group (SIG) manager on DELPHI for a number of years, and worked in a consulting capacity for CompuServe and The Source. He wrote one of the first guides to online services, The Modem Reference (Brady/Simon & Schuster), which introduced hundreds of thousands of users to modems and the online world. Because of his reputation as a modem and telecommunications expert, GEnie and BIX (Byte Information Exchange) created special online forums for Banks early blogs. He has also advised a number of businesses in the area of online marketing.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Apress
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1430250747
• ISBN 13: 9781430250746
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 236
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile