Dot-Dash to Dot.Com How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet /

The profusion of websites and applications that characterise the modern Internet may seem a far cry from the primitive telegraph system of the late 1830s. There is, however, a direct link. The invention of the electric telegraph paved the way for telephone networks which, in turn, laid the foundatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wheen, Andrew (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:Popular Science,
Temas:
Telecommunication.
Computers-History.
Computer networks .
Electronic circuits.
Engineering.
Life sciences.
Communications Engineering, Networks.
History of Computing.
Computer Communication Networks.
Electronic Circuits and Systems.
Technology and Engineering.
Life Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of figures
  • List of pictures
  • List of tables
  • About the author
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The birth of an industry
  • Chapter 2: The telegraph goes global
  • Chapter 3: A gatecrasher spoils the party
  • Chapter 4: Early telephone networks
  • Chapter 5: Going digital
  • Chapter 6: A bit of wet string
  • Chapter 7: The last mile
  • Chapter 8: Computers get chatty
  • Chapter 9: The birth of the Internet
  • Chapter 10: Life in cyberspace
  • Chapter 11: The mobile revolution
  • Chapter 12: When failure is not an option
  • Chapter 13: What comes next?
  • Appendices A - Q
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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