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This innovative title looks at the history of the Web from its early roots in the research projects of the US government to the interactive online world we know and use today. Fully illustrated with images of early computing equipment and the inside story of the online world's movers and shaker...
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Laurence King Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This innovative title looks at the history of the Web from its early roots in the research projects of the US government to the interactive online world we know and use today. Fully illustrated with images of early computing equipment and the inside story of the online world's movers and shakers, the book explains the origins of the Web's key technologies, such as hypertext and mark-up language, the social ideas that underlie its networks, such as open source, and creative commons, and key moments in its development, such as the movement to broadband and the Dotcom Crash. Later ideas look at |
| Carrier Form: | 216 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781780673707 (paperback) : 1780673701 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | TK5105 |
| CLC: | TP393.4-09 |
| Call Number: | TP393.4-09/B764 |
| Contents: | The mundaneum -- The space race -- Hypertext -- The modem -- Graphical user interface -- The mouse -- Markup language -- Xanadu -- The personal computer -- The internet -- Internet service provider -- Bulletin board systems -- Hackers -- Cyberpunk -- Internet protocol suite -- Desktop publishing -- Hypercard -- Graphics interchange format -- The emoticon -- The domain name system -- The project -- Web browser -- The cookie -- The JPEG -- Pornography -- Search -- WiFi -- Open source -- Netiquette -- Apache web server -- Content management systems -- Web analytics -- Massively multi-player onl |