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

:	Michael Banks
:	On the Way to the Web The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
:	Apress
:	9781430208709
:	1
:	CHF 19.10
:

:	Allgemeines, Lexika
:	English

:	200
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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.

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.

	Contents at a Glance	5
	Contents	7
	Foreword	11
	About the Author	19
	About the Technical Reviewer	20
	Preface	21
	Acknowledgments	22
	Introduction	23
	Looking Back: Where Did It All Begin?	26
	In the Beginning . . .	27
	Lo!	30
	In the Money	32
	The First Online Content	33
	The First Information Superhighway	36
	Making Contact with CompuServe	40
	The Source	50
	Dis-content and Conflict	64
	Videotex	64
	Growing Pains atThe Source	66
	Customer Loyalty and Growth	68
	Usenet Newsgroups	69
	Microcomputer Bulletin Boards	70
	Evolution	74
	Games	76
	Pirate Software	77
	Online Gaming	77
	Early File Sharing and User Publishing	78
	Chat	79
	Special-Interest Groups	81
	CompuServe Forums	82
	Online Experiments	85
	Gateways	87
	New Kids on the Block	89
	Trials and Errors	91
	Something Old, Nothing New	92
	Newspapers and Newsletters Online	93
	Consumer Movement	94
	Encyclopedias Online	96
	More Experiments	97
	Meanwhile, Back at the ARPA Ranch . . .	100
	The SecondWave	102
	DELPHI	103
	More Regional Online Services	105
	The First Dot-Com Bust	107
	GEnie	108
	AOL DNA, Part 1	112
	AOL DNA, Part 2: Gameline and ControlVideo Corporation	112
	AOL DNA, Part 3: Playnet	113
	AOL Gestation	117
	The Third Wave	124
	American People/Link (Plink)	124
	BIX (Byte Information eXchange)	127
	USA Today Sports Center	128
	The WELL	128
	Quantum Link (Q-Link)	129
	Trin-what?	134
	In with the New, Out with the Old	136
	Great Product, Great Customers Where s the Money?	136
	Great Expectations	137
	The Entrepreneur Who Wouldn t Go Away, Redux	137
	AppleLink Personal Edition	138
	PC-Link	140
	Sour Apples	141
	The CompetitionWakes	143
	Front Ends	143
	Another Online Casualty	147
	AOL Evolves: Expansion, Integration, and Success	148
	Independence	148
	Promenade	149
	The Great Commingling	150
	AOL for PCs: DOS and Windows	152
	Planning Ahead	154
	Marketing AOL	155
	Prodigy: The Flat-Rate Pioneer Who Just Didn t Get It	159
	In the Beginning . . .	159
	Videotex Again?	161
	New	161
	162	161
	Online Advertising?	164
	Prodigy Call Home	166
	Censored!	167
	Of CourseYou Realize . . . This Means War!	169
	No, Not Spyware!	170
	Didn t Prodigy Invent the Internet?	171
	Files,Anyone?	172
	Turning On the Meter	173
	Chat, at Last	175
	Moving to the Net	177
	International Expansion	178
	Apple Replay	181
	Opening Up the Internet	181
	Online Services and the Internet	185
	One Step Forward,Two Steps Back	189
	Where Are They Now?	190
	Afterword: Omissions,Additions, and Corrections	196
	Online Timeline	198
	1945	198
	1957	198
	1960	198
	1961	199
	1962	199
	1963	199
	1964	199
	1965	200
	1966	200
	1967	200
	1968	200
	1969	201
	1970	201
	1971	201
	1972	201
	1973	202
	1974	202
	1975	203
	1976	203
	1977	203
	1978	203
	1979	204
	1980	205
	1981	205
	1982	206
	1983	207
	1984	208
	1985	209
	1986	209
	1987	209
	1988	210
	1989	210
	1990	211
	1991	211
	1992	212
	1993	212
	1994	213
	Bibliography	215
	Founders	217
	Index	222