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Inventing The Internet
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Author : Janet Abbate
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2000-07-24
Inventing The Internet written by Janet Abbate and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-24 with Science categories.
Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users. The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design and in organizational culture.
Inventing The Internet
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Author : Janet Abbate
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2000-07-24
Inventing The Internet written by Janet Abbate and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-24 with Science categories.
Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users. The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; how the usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and unique results; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronic mail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend of decentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and that the key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both in technical design and in organizational culture.
Inventing The Internet
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Author : Janet Abbate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Inventing The Internet written by Janet Abbate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate focuses on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. She unfolds an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users.
Re Inventing The Internet
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Author : Andrew Feenberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-03-24
Re Inventing The Internet written by Andrew Feenberg and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-24 with Education categories.
Although it has been in existence for over three decades, the Internet remains a contested technology. Its governance and role in civic life, education, and entertainment are all still openly disputed and debated. The issues include censorship and network control, privacy and surveillance, the political impact of activist blogging, peer to peer file sharing, the effects of video games on children, and many others. Media conglomerates, governments and users all contribute to shaping the forms and functions of the Internet as the limits and potentialities of the technologies are tested and extended. What is most surprising about the Internet is the proliferation of controversies and conflicts in which the creativity of ordinary users plays a central role. The title, (Re)Inventing the Internet, refers to this extraordinary flowering of agency in a society that tends to reduce its members to passive spectators. This collection presents a series of critical case studies that examine specific sites of change and contestation. These cover a range of phenomena including computer gaming cultures, online education, surveillance, and the mutual shaping of digital technologies and civic life.
Re Inventing The Internet
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Author : Norm Friesen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Re Inventing The Internet written by Norm Friesen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Although it has been in existence for over three decades, the Internet remains a contested technology. Its governance and role in civic life, education, and entertainment are all still openly disputed and debated. The issues include censorship and network control, privacy and surveillance, the political impact of activist blogging, peer to peer file sharing, the effects of video games on children, and many others. Media conglomerates, governments and users all contribute to shaping the forms and functions of the Internet as the limits and potentialities of the technologies are tested and extended. What is most surprising about the Internet is the proliferation of controversies and conflicts in which the creativity of ordinary users plays a central role. The title, (Re)Inventing the Internet, refers to this extraordinary flowering of agency in a society that tends to reduce its members to passive spectators. This collection presents a series of critical case studies that examine specific sites of change and contestation. These cover a range of phenomena including computer gaming cultures, online education, surveillance, and the mutual shaping of digital technologies and civic life.
Researching Internet Governance
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Author : Laura Denardis
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Researching Internet Governance written by Laura Denardis and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Political Science categories.
Scholars from a range of disciplines discuss research methods, theories, and conceptual approaches in the study of internet governance. The design and governance of the internet has become one of the most pressing geopolitical issues of our era. The stability of the economy, democracy, and the public sphere are wholly dependent on the stability and security of the internet. Revelations about election hacking, facial recognition technology, and government surveillance have gotten the public's attention and made clear the need for scholarly research that examines internet governance both empirically and conceptually. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines consider research methods, theories, and conceptual approaches in the study of internet governance.
Inventing The Internet
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Author : Cynthia Kennedy Henzel
language : en
Publisher: Momentum
Release Date : 2016
Inventing The Internet written by Cynthia Kennedy Henzel and has been published by Momentum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Internet categories.
"Narrative nonfiction text presents the story of the Internet's invention: why there was a need for it, its design and testing, the science behind it, and its lasting impact. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, fact-filled captions and callouts, infographics, a glossary, sources for further research, a listing of source notes, and an introduction to the author"--Publisher.
Why Did The Devil Invent The Internet
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Author : Richard Hennerley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-06
Why Did The Devil Invent The Internet written by Richard Hennerley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with categories.
If you wish to know why The Devil invented the Internet the first thing you have to understand is that God and The Devil were not always daggers drawn at opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum, so to speak. Indeed, in the beginning there was the light, and there was God and there was The Devil. And God and The Devil were great friends and partners and the basis, the cement, of that relationship was the world creation business...how did it all go so horribly wrong? Two brothers, one good and one bad, discover that the road to Heaven passes through the foothills of Hell. Who will survive the journey? What on Earth (and Heaven) can God and the Devil do about a man who is too wicked even for hell? A terrifying horror is unleashed on humanity when the Devil hits upon a wicked new invention - the internet. God decides, for the first time in an eon, to have a look exactly what is happening on Planet Earth - and wishes he hadn't bothered. A rich man is forced to confront the corruption in his soul, with fatal consequences. All hell is let loose (literally) when the Devil decides to reclaim the soul of one of his Special Children. And along the way we discover that the Devil also invented religion and two minute past four in the morning - but why? And more.... 11 tales of God and The Devil. Read them - if you dare.
The Heart Of The Internet
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Author : Jacques Vallee
language : en
Publisher: Jacques Vallee
Release Date : 2003
The Heart Of The Internet written by Jacques Vallee and has been published by Jacques Vallee this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
Jacques Vallee was among the engineers and visionaries who set up the Internet, hoping to connect people -- not control them -- through information. For a few years, it seemed that this dream was being realized. But after the dot com crash of 2001, much of the Web's information flowed into the media giants and corporate conglomerates, leaving millions of Net denizens without true freedom of choice. And then there is the threat of government snooping... All is not lost, but it is time for public and private actions to rebuild the dream and win back our freedom. In The Heart of the Internet, Vallee: reconstructs the history of computer technology and destroys a few myths (Eniac was not the first computer; Apple did not invent the mouse, and neither did Xerox.); uses first-person recollections and notes to describe the series of breakthroughs that transformed computers from calculating machines to universal platforms for new media; describes the Internet in today's marketplace, pressured on the one hand by commercial interests seeking to influence not merely our purchases but our thoughts, and on the other by governmental obsession to harness the whole system to its own narrow definitions of security -- sacrificing our privacy and possibly our freedom in the process; states a set of principles for network citizens and suggests how we can create new standards for Internet usage. Book jacket.
From Gutenberg To The Internet
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Author : Jeremy M. Norman
language : en
Publisher: Norman Publishing
Release Date : 2005
From Gutenberg To The Internet written by Jeremy M. Norman and has been published by Norman Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Computers categories.
From Gutenberg to the Internet presents 63 original readings from the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications arranged thematically by chapters. Most of the readings record basic discoveries from the 1830s through the 1960s that laid the foundation of the world of digital information in which we live. These readings, some of which are illustrated, trace historic steps from the early nineteenth century development of telegraph systems---the first data networks---through the development of the earliest general-purpose programmable computers and the earliest software, to the foundation in 1969 of ARPANET, the first national computer network that eventually became the Internet. The readings will allow you to review early developments and ideas in the history of information technology that eventually led to the convergence of computing, data networking, and telecommunications in the Internet. The editor has written a lengthy illustrated historical introduction concerning the impact of the Internet on book culture. It compares and contrasts the transition from manuscript to print initiated by Gutenberg's invention of printing by moveable type in the 15th century with the transition that began in the mid-19th century from a print-centric world to the present world in which printing co-exists with various electronic media that converged to form the Internet. He also provided a comprehensive and wide-ranging annotated timeline covering selected developments in the history of information technology from the year 100 up to 2004, and supplied introductory notes to each reading. Some introductory notes contain supplementary illustrations.