A History of the Internet and the Digital Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Internet and the Digital Future write by Johnny Ryan. This book was released on 2010-09-15. A History of the Internet and the Digital Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
History of the Internet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of the Internet write by Christos J. P. Moschovitis. This book was released on 1999. History of the Internet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
A Brief History of the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief History of the Future write by John Naughton. This book was released on 2015-09-24. A Brief History of the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Spam
Spam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spam write by Finn Brunton. This book was released on 2015-01-30. Spam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
History on the Web
History on the Web - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History on the Web write by Francis Andrew McMichael. This book was released on 2005. History on the Web available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
