Banks On the Way to the Web

The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
1. ed
ISBN: 978-1-4302-0870-9
Verlag: Apress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banks, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents at a Glance;5
2;Contents;7
3;Foreword;11
4;About the Author;19
5;About the Technical Reviewer;20
6;Preface;21
7;Acknowledgments;22
8;Introduction;23
9;Looking Back: Where Did It All Begin?;26
9.1;In the Beginning . . .;27
9.2;Lo!;30
10;In the Money;32
10.1;The First Online Content;33
10.2;The First Information Superhighway;36
11;Making Contact with CompuServe;40
12;The Source;50
13;Dis-content and Conflict;64
13.1;Videotex;64
13.2;Growing Pains atThe Source;66
13.3;Customer Loyalty and Growth;68
13.4;Usenet Newsgroups;69
13.5;Microcomputer Bulletin Boards;70
14;Evolution;74
14.1;Games;76
14.2;Pirate Software;77
14.3;Online Gaming;77
14.4;Early File Sharing and User Publishing;78
14.5;Chat;79
14.6;Special-Interest Groups;81
14.7;CompuServe Forums;82
15;Online Experiments;85
15.1;Gateways;87
15.2;New Kids on the Block;89
16;Trials and Errors;91
16.1;Something Old, Nothing New;92
16.2;Newspapers and Newsletters Online;93
16.3;Consumer Movement;94
16.4;Encyclopedias Online;96
16.5;More Experiments;97
16.6;Meanwhile, Back at the ARPA Ranch . . .;100
17;The SecondWave;102
17.1;DELPHI;103
17.2;More Regional Online Services;105
17.3;The First Dot-Com Bust;107
17.4;GEnie;108
17.5;AOL DNA, Part 1;112
17.6;AOL DNA, Part 2: Gameline and ControlVideo Corporation;112
17.7;AOL DNA, Part 3: Playnet;113
18;AOL Gestation;117
19;The Third Wave;124
19.1;American People/Link (Plink);124
19.2;BIX (Byte Information eXchange);127
19.3;USA Today Sports Center;128
19.4;The WELL;128
19.5;Quantum Link (Q-Link);129
19.6;Trin-what?;134
20;In with the New, Out with the Old;136
20.1;Great Product, Great Customers— Where’s the Money?;136
20.2;Great Expectations;137
20.3;The Entrepreneur Who Wouldn’t Go Away, Redux;137
20.4;AppleLink–Personal Edition;138
20.5;PC-Link;140
20.6;Sour Apples;141
20.7;The CompetitionWakes;143
20.8;Front Ends;143
20.9;Another Online Casualty;147
21;AOL Evolves: Expansion, Integration, and Success;148
21.1;Independence;148
21.2;Promenade;149
21.3;The Great Commingling;150
21.4;AOL for PCs: DOS and Windows;152
21.5;Planning Ahead;154
21.6;Marketing AOL;155
22;Prodigy: The Flat-Rate Pioneer Who Just Didn’t Get It;159
22.1;In the Beginning . . .;159
22.2;Videotex Again?;161
22.3;New & Improved;162
22.4;Online Advertising?;164
22.5;Prodigy Call Home;166
22.6;Censored!;167
22.7;“Of CourseYou Realize . . . This Means War!”;169
22.8;No, Not Spyware!;170
22.9;“Didn’t Prodigy Invent the Internet?”;171
22.10;Files,Anyone?;172
22.11;Turning On the Meter;173
22.12;Chat, at Last;175
23;Moving to the Net;177
23.1;International Expansion;178
23.2;Apple Replay;181
23.3;Opening Up the Internet;181
23.4;Online Services and the Internet;185
23.5;One Step Forward,Two Steps Back;189
23.6;Where Are They Now?;190
24;Afterword: Omissions,Additions, and Corrections;196
25;Online Timeline;198
25.1;1945;198
25.2;1957;198
25.3;1960;198
25.4;1961;199
25.5;1962;199
25.6;1963;199
25.7;1964;199
25.8;1965;200
25.9;1966;200
25.10;1967;200
25.11;1968;200
25.12;1969;201
25.13;1970;201
25.14;1971;201
25.15;1972;201
25.16;1973;202
25.17;1974;202
25.18;1975;203
25.19;1976;203
25.20;1977;203
25.21;1978;203
25.22;1979;204
25.23;1980;205
25.24;1981;205
25.25;1982;206
25.26;1983;207
25.27;1984;208
25.28;1985;209
25.29;1986;209
25.30;1987;209
25.31;1988;210
25.32;1989;210
25.33;1990;211
25.34;1991;211
25.35;1992;212
25.36;1993;212
25.37;1994;213
26;Bibliography;215
27;Founders;217
28;Index;222