Book description
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
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copy Right
- Dedication
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Looking Back: Where Did It All Begin?
- CHAPTER 2 In the Money
- CHAPTER 3 Making Contact with CompuServe
- CHAPTER 4 The Source
- CHAPTER 5 Dis-content and Conflict
- CHAPTER 6 Evolution
- CHAPTER 7 Online Experiments
- CHAPTER 8 Trials and Errors
- CHAPTER 9 The Second Wave
- CHAPTER 10 AOL Gestation
- CHAPTER 11 The Third Wave
- CHAPTER 12 In with the New, Out with the Old
- CHAPTER 13 AOL Evolves: Expansion, Integration, and Success
- CHAPTER 14 Prodigy: The Flat-Rate Pioneer Who Just Didn't Get It
- CHAPTER 15 Moving to the Net
- Afterword
- APPENDIX A Online Timeline
- APPENDIX B Bibliography
- APPENDIX C Founders
- Index
Product information
- Title: On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2008
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781430208693
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