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A History of the Internet and the Digital Future

Author : Johnny Ryan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861898355
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Internet and the Digital Future written by Johnny Ryan and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship, copyright infringement, intellectual freedom, and terrorism and warfare. Johnny Ryan explains how the Internet has revolutionized political campaigns; how the development of the World Wide Web enfranchised a new online population of assertive, niche consumers; and how the dot-com bust taught smarter firms to capitalize on the power of digital artisans. From the government-controlled systems of the Cold War to today’s move towards cloud computing, user-driven content, and the new global commons, this book reveals the trends that are shaping the businesses, politics, and media of the digital future.

History of the Internet

Author : Christos J. P. Moschovitis
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 : 9781576071182
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book History of the Internet written by Christos J. P. Moschovitis and published by Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronology of telecommunications from Babbage's earliest theories of a "Difference Engine" to the impact of the Internet in 1998 to future trends.

A Brief History of the Future

Author : John Naughton
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474602770
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the Future written by John Naughton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. John Naughton's book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative account of where the Net actually came from, who invented it and why and where it might be taking us. Most of us have no idea how the Internet works, or who created it. Even fewer have any idea what it means for society and the future. In a cynical age, John Naughton has not lost his capacity for wonder. He examines the nature of his own enthusiasm for technology and traces its roots in his lonely childhood and in his relationship with his father. A Brief History of the Future is an intensely personal celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination and, above all, of the power of ideas, passionately felt, to change the world.

A Brief History of the Internet The Bright Side: The Dark Side

Author : Michael Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the Internet The Bright Side: The Dark Side written by Michael Hart and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Not to Network a Nation

Author : Benjamin Peters
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034182
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book How Not to Network a Nation written by Benjamin Peters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a “unified information network.” Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS—its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today's networked world.

History on the Web

Author : Francis Andrew McMichael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882952307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book History on the Web written by Francis Andrew McMichael and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet and the World Wide Web : a short history of the Internet -- How to find history Web sites -- Using and evaluating online materials -- The rest of the "Net" -- Putting content on the Web -- some suggestions.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late

Author : Matthew Lyon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684872161
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Where Wizards Stay Up Late written by Matthew Lyon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-08-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

Author : Justin E. H. Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691212325
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is written by Justin E. H. Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the internet, uncovering its origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of improving the quality of human life by creating thinking machines and allowing for communication across vast distances. Looks at what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us.

A History of Communications

Author : Marshall T. Poe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495577
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book A History of Communications written by Marshall T. Poe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into widespread use by broad historical trends and these media, once in widespread use, 'push' social institutions and beliefs in predictable directions. This view allows us to see for the first time what is truly new about the Internet, what is not, and where it is taking us.

Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice

Author : Luppicini, Rocci
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466629320
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice written by Luppicini, Rocci and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our social, educational, professional, and political ethics play a significant role in every aspect of our life. As technology continues to influence our society, these principles needs to be valued. Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice highlights the innovations and developments in the ethical features of technology in society. This comprehensive collection brings together research in the areas of computer, engineering, and biotechnical ethics. These theoretical studies and innovative methodologies are essential for researchers, practitioners and philosophers.

Spam

Author : Finn Brunton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026252757X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Spam written by Finn Brunton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself. The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As Finn Brunton explains in Spam, it is produced and shaped by many different populations around the world: programmers, con artists, bots and their botmasters, pharmaceutical merchants, marketers, identity thieves, crooked bankers and their victims, cops, lawyers, network security professionals, vigilantes, and hackers. Every time we go online, we participate in the system of spam, with choices, refusals, and purchases the consequences of which we may not understand. This is a book about what spam is, how it works, and what it means. Brunton provides a cultural history that stretches from pranks on early computer networks to the construction of a global criminal infrastructure. The history of spam, Brunton shows us, is a shadow history of the Internet itself, with spam emerging as the mirror image of the online communities it targets. Brunton traces spam through three epochs: the 1970s to 1995, and the early, noncommercial computer networks that became the Internet; 1995 to 2003, with the dot-com boom, the rise of spam's entrepreneurs, and the first efforts at regulating spam; and 2003 to the present, with the war of algorithms—spam versus anti-spam. Spam shows us how technologies, from email to search engines, are transformed by unintended consequences and adaptations, and how online communities develop and invent governance for themselves.

Internet Histories

Author : Niels Brügger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351336096
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Internet Histories written by Niels Brügger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017, the new journal Internet Histories was founded. As part of the process of defining a new field, the journal editors approached leading scholars in this dynamic, interdisciplinary area. This book is thus a collection of eighteen short thought-provoking pieces, inviting discussion about Internet histories. They raise and suggest current and future issues in the scholarship, as well as exploring the challenges, opportunities, and tensions that underpin the research terrain. The book explores cultural, political, social, economic, and industrial dynamics, all part of a distinctive historiographical and theoretical approach which underpins this emerging field. The international specialists reflect upon the scholarly scene, laying out the field’s research successes to date, as well as suggest the future possibilities that lie ahead in the field of Internet histories. While the emphasis is on researcher perspectives, interviews with leading luminaries of the Internet’s development are also provided. As histories of the Internet become increasingly important, Internet Histories is a useful roadmap for those contemplating how we can write such works. One cannot write many histories of the 1990s or later without thinking of digital media – and we hope that Internet Histories will be an invaluable resource for such studies. This book was originally published as the first issue of the Internet Histories journal.

Surveillance Valley

Author : Yasha Levine
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610398033
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Surveillance Valley written by Yasha Levine and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. A visionary intelligence officer, William Godel, realized that the key to winning the war in Vietnam was not outgunning the enemy, but using new information technology to understand their motives and anticipate their movements. This idea -- using computers to spy on people and groups perceived as a threat, both at home and abroad -- drove ARPA to develop the internet in the 1960s, and continues to be at the heart of the modern internet we all know and use today. As Levine shows, surveillance wasn't something that suddenly appeared on the internet; it was woven into the fabric of the technology. But this isn't just a story about the NSA or other domestic programs run by the government. As the book spins forward in time, Levine examines the private surveillance business that powers tech-industry giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, revealing how these companies spy on their users for profit, all while doing double duty as military and intelligence contractors. Levine shows that the military and Silicon Valley are effectively inseparable: a military-digital complex that permeates everything connected to the internet, even coopting and weaponizing the antigovernment privacy movement that sprang up in the wake of Edward Snowden. With deep research, skilled storytelling, and provocative arguments, Surveillance Valley will change the way you think about the news -- and the device on which you read it.

Netizens

Author : Michael Hauben
Publisher : Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Netizens written by Michael Hauben and published by Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press. This book was released on 1997-05-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors conducted online research to find out what makes the Internet "tick", resulting in this examination of the pioneering vision and actions that have helped make the Net possible. "Netizens" is a detailed description of the Net's construction and a step-by-step view of the past, present, and future of the Internet, the Usenet and the World Wide Web.

Communication Nets

Author : Leonard Kleinrock
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486151115
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Communication Nets written by Leonard Kleinrock and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considerable research has been devoted to the formulation and solution of problems involving flow within connected networks. Independent of these surveys, an extensive body of knowledge has accumulated on the subject of queues, particularly in regard to stochastic flow through single-node servicing facilities. This text combines studies of connected networks with those of stochastic flow, providing a basis for understanding the general behavior and operation of communication networks in realistic situations. Author Leonard Kleinrock of the Computer Science Department at UCLA created the basic principle of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet. In this text, he develops a queuing theory model of communications nets. Its networks are channel-capacity limited; consequently, the measure of performance is taken to be the average delay encountered by a message in passing through the net. Topics include questions pertaining to optimal channel capacity assignment, effect of priority and other queue disciplines, choice of routine procedure, fixed-cost restraint, and design of topological structures. Many separate facets are brought into focus in the concluding discussion of the simulation of communication nets, and six appendices offer valuable supplementary information.

Media,Technology and Society

Author : Brian Winston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134766335
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Media,Technology and Society written by Brian Winston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited.

A Concise History of Computers, Smartphones and the Internet

Author : Ernie Dainow
Publisher : Ernie Dainow
ISBN 13 : 0995214417
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Computers, Smartphones and the Internet written by Ernie Dainow and published by Ernie Dainow. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very first electronic computers were invented at the end of World War II. They were very large machines that could only be used in special air conditioned rooms. Today, almost everybody carries a computer in their pocket, in their mobile phone. How did all this come about in only 70 years? This book is for people who would like to know the answer to this question. It tells this exciting story, with a lot of pictures. This book is not a complete history, rather it is a concise history that covers the most important people, companies and inventions that led to where we are today. The first chapter covers the evolution of computer hardware - the physical machine. The second chapter focuses on the software - the programs that provide the instructions that tell the hardware what to do. The third chapter covers the most important data networks that were developed so that computers could communicate with each other, ending with the Internet which only became the dominant computer network after 1995. The last chapter on Smartphones traces its history from the discovery of radio waves in the late 19th century to the Apple iPhone. This book does not require a lot of technical knowledge about computers. People who are interested in learning more about how computers actually work can read the companion book “Understanding Computers, Smartphones and the Internet”, by Ernie Dainow.