The Net effect

The author explores the net effect - not just how it evolved and what it does, but how it relates to the way we live. Most writing about the Net focuses on a particular aspect: its use for business or its driving technology, for example. This book aims at a broader target.

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Porter offers a gentle introduction to the fascinating world of the World Wide Web. From the precomputer age of mechanical devices to the modern day Internet, she traces the development of the tools of modern communications using a totally nontechnical and somewhat anecdotal approach. Although the evolution of the Web is in itself a marvel, this wonder cannot be compared to the extensive effect of the Internet on every walk of life. The author has skillfully told the story of the Web from its infancy to its present stage, from an experiential perspective. The impact of the Web is examined and detailed from all perspectives through events and quotes from the past decades, highlighting the important milestones along the way. By drawing parallels to lessons in history, the technological advances and its cultural effects are presented in nontechnical and enticing terms, so that even an apprehensive reader will find the discussion enlightening and beneficial. An excellent information source for those bewildered or hesitant about the technological advances of the Web. General readers; lower-division undergraduates; two-year technical program students. J. Y. Cheung University of Oklahoma

Acknowledgments	p. iii
Foreword	p. iv
Preamble	p. 5
Morphing From IT to ET	p. 6
Introduction: the Janus approach	p. 8
Connections	p. 9
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix	p. 11
The Importance of Nothing	p. 14
Section 1 The long and winding slip-road	p. 15
Anatomy of the Elegant Box	p. 16
The War That Changed Everything	p. 18
A Bodyguard of Lies	p. 22
Tunny Turns the Tide	p. 27
Swords Into MicroChips	p. 30
A Decade of Secrets; Computers With Your Tea	p. 34
Defense and the Big Bucks	p. 37
Time of Transition	p. 40
Racing to the Net	p. 42
Section 2 Clear-eyed acumen and blind dreams	p. 49
Tooled-Up	p. 50
Scaredy-Cats	p. 52
Embracing the Beast	p. 58
Who's Spinning the Web?	p. 63
Gallimaufry	p. 69
Information	p. 70
Entertainment and Leisure	p. 73
Commerce	p. 76
Section 3 The da Vinci syndrome	p. 79
Under the Influence	p. 80
The Virtual Architect	p. 82
Not Crying Over Spilt Paint	p. 83
Fuzzy Boundaries	p. 86
The Book Unbound	p. 89
Digi Display	p. 94
POV	p. 95
Bending Reality	p. 97
Playtime	p. 102
Inviting the Viewer	p. 105
Fashioning Worlds	p. 107
Lights, Camera, Let-Down	p. 109
Reeling You In	p. 112
Tinkle, Tinkle Little NetStar	p. 114
Music to Your Ears	p. 117
Next Stages	p. 122
Buttressing the ThinkTank	p. 125
Reaping Rewards	p. 128
The Price of Talent	p. 130
Section 4 The internet experience	p. 131
WWWwhat else is there?	p. 132
Here Be Dragons	p. 137
I Want IT and I Want It Now	p. 138
Worker Rights and Wrongs; Web Pros and Cons	p. 141
Power to the Net People	p. 147
Securing The Net	p. 157
Slipping Through the Net	p. 163
Learning CyberLessons	p. 166
Community Spirit	p. 167
Coda: quo vadis	p. 169
Growing Like Topsy	p. 170
Asking Better Questions	p. 171
Okay, Wotcha Got Now?	p. 173
Tomorrow	p. 177
Index	p. 180

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