Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Electronic data processing, Computers, History, Computers, historyShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Geeks bearing gifts: how the computer world got this way
2009, Mindful Press, Distributed by Lulu.com
in English
- Version 1.1.
0578004380 9780578004389
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
Hierarchy (ancient beginnings)
Alphabets (ancient beginnings)
Punctuation (ancient beginnings)
Encryption (ancient beginnings)
Making documents hierarchical (18th century)
They all invented computers (1822)
They all idealized computers (1843)
Database (1884)
Voting machines (1892)
Intellectual property (1923)
The mainframe era (1946)
Computer sound and music (1947)
Computer graphics in two dimensions (1950)
Computer games (1951)
Disk drive wars (1956)
Engelbert's NLS (1958)
Xanadu
generalized deep documents (1960)
Computer graphics in three dimensions (1960)
The ARPANET gets the message across (1962)
Instant messaging and texting (1960s)
Computer movies (1963)
Shared texts (1965)
Email (1956)
Hypertext goes down a wrong-way street (1967)
Object-oriented programming (1967)
Local networking (1970)
Datapoint's accidentally-on-purpose personal computer (1970)
UNIX
modern computer history begins (1970)
Malware and security (1973)
The era of dinky computers : kits and stunts (1974)
The PUI simplifies the computer (1974)
Paperdigm : computer as paper simulator (1974)
The PUI as writer's block (1974)
Personal computing (1977)
The world wars : consumer operating systems (1977)
Spreadsheet (1979)
The domain name system (1983)
Free software, GNU, open source and Linux, i.e. Gnu/Linux (1983)
The world wars go mobile (1983)
The internet
enjoy it while you can (1989)
The simple early web (1989)
PUI on the internet
the web browser salad (1992)
The URL unifies net addresses
Web biz : the dot-com world and the new monopolies (1995)
Streaming goes private (1995)
Google (1996)
Cyberfashion (1996)
Web 2.0
community and cattle pen (2004)
The myth of computer technology
Why we fight.
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created September 1, 2017
- 6 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
November 29, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
October 17, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
February 1, 2018 | Edited by Darby | Added new cover |
February 1, 2018 | Edited by Darby | Edited without comment. |
September 1, 2017 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Internet Archive item record |