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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.

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Sausalito, CA

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Library of Congress
QA76.17 .N45 2009, QA76.17 .N45 2008

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Pagination
ix, 199 pages :
Number of pages
199

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Open Library
OL26370055M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780578004389
ISBN 10
0578004380
ISBN 13
9780578004389
OCLC/WorldCat
318633769, 304175030
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6136500

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