The first section of the book introduces communication system concepts and terminology. The second section reviews the history of the Internet and its incredible growth.
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, ...
In The Internet Imaginaire, sociologist Patrice Flichy examines the collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet—the social imagination that envisioned a technological utopia in the birth of a new technology.
Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today. The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet.
Imagining the Internet zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions—and how they turned out.
When the first edition of The Internet For Dummies debuted in 1994, a typical Internet user was a student who connected from college or a technical worker who had access through work.
... The Movers and the Shirkers : Representatives and Ideologues in the Senate ( University of Michigan Press , 1999 ) , and over fifty articles . Uslaner's edited books include Social Capital and Participation in Everyday Life and Social ...
Can we really be anonymous and private online? Who controls the internet, and why is that important? And... what's with all the cats? How the Internet Really Works answers these questions and more.
In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of college kids set off a once-in-an-epoch revolution with what would become the first ...
Skorupski encourages them to research the story on the internet and use her "Website Evaluation Gizmo" to evaluate websites and come up with the correct answer.