Essential Internet
Subtitle: the Essential A-Z
Publisher: Economist Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781847650139
Subjects: Dictionaries; Internet
Description: Replacing the long-running pocket series, this new Economist essential A-Z series is launched in Spring 2003 in a strikingly attractive paper back format, with flaps and distinctive red end papers. Following an introduction on the huge differences the Internet has made to modern day life, the bulk of the book contains a much expanded A-Z with several hundred entries that explain the essentials of the Internet - as well as some of its more quirky and inconsequential aspects. Entries include ActiveX, ADSL, Arpanet, Asynchronous transfer mode, B2B, B2C, Backbone, Cookie, Copyleft, Cracker.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; The essential internet; A to Z; 1 A brief history of the internet; 2 Abbreviations; 3 Recommended websites;