On the way to the Web: the secret history of the Internet and its founders

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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. Front Matter....Pages i-xxix Looking Back: Where Did It All Begin?....Pages 1-6 In the Money....Pages 7-14 Making Contact with CompuServe....Pages 15-24 The Source....Pages 25-38 Dis-content and Conflict....Pages 39-48 Evolution....Pages 49-59 Online Experiments....Pages 61-66 Trials and Errors....Pages 67-77 The Second Wave....Pages 79-93 AOL Gestation....Pages 95-101 The Third Wave....Pages 103-114 In with the New, Out with the Old....Pages 115-126 AOL Evolves: Expansion, Integration, and Success....Pages 127-137 Prodigy: The Flat-Rate Pioneer Who Just Didn’t Get It....Pages 139-156 Moving to the Net....Pages 157-175 Back Matter....Pages 177-215