Overview
- Michael Banks is probably the best self promoting computer book author. For instance, he had over 40 signings this year alone
- He knows most of the 80+ players interviewed in the book personally and so can relate interesting anecdotes
- This is a narrative; a story of the building of the Internet: the characters, and the events that made it what it became and the successes, mistakes, lucky guesses and near misses that changed the culture
- The text is packed with fascinating facts and trivia, and many of the stories related are events the reader experienced or can relate to
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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.
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Book Title: On the Way to the Web
Book Subtitle: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
Authors: Michael A. Banks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0870-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Michael Banks 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-0869-3Published: 25 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-2038-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0870-9Published: 08 September 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 218
Topics: Web Development, Computing Milieux