Geeks bearing gifts
Subtitle: how the computer world got this way
By: Ted Nelson
Edition: Version 1.1.
Publisher: Mindful Press; Distributed by Lulu.com
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sausalito, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780578004389
Subjects: Electronic data processing; Computers; History
Table of contents: title: Hierarchy (ancient beginnings); title: Alphabets (ancient beginnings); title: Punctuation (ancient beginnings); title: Encryption (ancient beginnings); title: Making documents hierarchical (18th century); title: They all invented computers (1822); title: They all idealized computers (1843); title: Database (1884); title: Voting machines (1892); title: Intellectual property (1923); title: The mainframe era (1946); title: Computer sound and music (1947); title: Computer graphics in two dimensions (1950); title: Computer games (1951); title: Disk drive wars (1956); title: Engelbert's NLS (1958); title: Xanadu; title: generalized deep documents (1960); title: Computer graphics in three dimensions (1960); title: The ARPANET gets the message across (1962); title: Instant messaging and texting (1960s); title: Computer movies (1963); title: Shared texts (1965); title: Email (1956); title: Hypertext goes down a wrong-way street (1967); title: Object-oriented programming (1967); title: Local networking (1970); title: Datapoint's accidentally-on-purpose personal computer (1970); title: UNIX; title: modern computer history begins (1970); title: Malware and security (1973); title: The era of dinky computers : kits and stunts (1974); title: The PUI simplifies the computer (1974); title: Paperdigm : computer as paper simulator (1974); title: The PUI as writer's block (1974); title: Personal computing (1977); title: The world wars : consumer operating systems (1977); title: Spreadsheet (1979); title: The domain name system (1983); title: Free software, GNU, open source and Linux, i.e. Gnu/Linux (1983); title: The world wars go mobile (1983); title: The internet; title: enjoy it while you can (1989); title: The simple early web (1989); title: PUI on the internet; title: the web browser salad (1992); title: The URL unifies net addresses; title: Web biz : the dot-com world and the new monopolies (1995); title: Streaming goes private (1995); title: Google (1996); title: Cyberfashion (1996); title: Web 2.0; title: community and cattle pen (2004); title: The myth of computer technology; title: Why we fight.