Author:
Banks, Michael A.
Imprint:Berkeley, CA : Apress ; New York : Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, 2008.
Descriptionxxix, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Chapter 1 Looking Back: Where Did it all Begin? -- In the Beginning -- Lo! -- Chapter 2 In the Money -- The First Online Content -- The First Information Superhighway -- Chapter 3 Making Contact with CompuServe -- Chapter 4 The Source -- Chapter 5 Dis-content and Conflict -- Videotex -- Growing Pains at The Source -- Customer Loyalty and Growth -- Usenet Newsgroups -- Microcomputer Bulletin Boards -- Chapter 6 Evolution -- Games -- Pirate Software -- Online Gaming -- Early File Sharing and User Publishing -- Chat -- Special-Interest Groups -- CompuServe Forums -- Chapter 7 Online Experiments -- Gateways -- New Kids on the Block -- Chapter 8 Trials and Errors -- Something Old, Nothing New -- Newspapers and Newsletters Online -- Consumer Movement -- Encyclopedias Online -- More Experiments -- Meanwhile, Back at the ARPA Ranch -- Chapter 9 The Second Wave -- DELPHI -- More Regional Online Services -- The First Dot-Com Bust -- GEnie -- AOL DNA, Part1 -- AOL DNA, Part 2: Gameline and Control Video Corporation -- AOL DNA,Part3: Playnet -- Chapter 10 AOL Gestation -- Chapter 11 The Third Wave -- American People/Link (Plink) -- BIX (Byte Information eXchange) -- USA Today Sports Center -- The WELL -- Quantum Link (Q-Link) -- Trin-what? -- Chapter 12 In with the New, Out with the Old -- Great Product, Great Customers-Where's the Money? -- Great Expectations -- The Entrepreneur Who Wouldn't Go Away, Redux -- AppleLink-Personal Edition -- PC-Link -- Sour Apples -- The Competition Wakes -- Front Ends -- Another Online Casualty -- Chapter 13 AOL Evolves: Expansion, Integration, and Success -- Independence -- Promenade -- The Great Commingling -- AOL for PCs: DOS and Windows -- Planning Ahead -- Marketing AOL -- Chapter 14 Prodigy: The Flat-Rate Pioneer Who Just Didn't Get it -- In the Beginning -- Videotex Again? -- New & Improved -- Online Advertising? -- Prodigy Call Home -- Censored! -- "Of Course You Realize ... This Means War! -- "No, Not Spyware!" -- Didn't Prodigy Invent the Internet? -- "Files, Anyone? -- Turning On the Meter -- Chat, at Last -- Chapter 15 Moving to the Net -- International Expansion -- Apple Replay -- Opening Up the Internet -- Online Services and the Internet -- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- Where Are They Now? -- Afterword: Omissions, Additions, and Corrections -- Appendix A Online Timeline -- Appendix B Bibliography -- Appendix C Founders -- Index.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-198) and index.
Note:Relates the early history of the Internet, profiling the entrepreneurs and innovators who created the earliest forms of online services and describing the events that helped modern computer culture evolve.
