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Geeks bearing gifts
how the computer world got this way
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by Theodor H. Nelson
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Geeks bearing gifts: how the computer world got this way
2009, Mindful Press, Distributed by Lulu.com
in English
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0578004380 9780578004389
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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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