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1996

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet

history

non-fiction

technology

tech

Katie Hafner - 1996

Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist.

Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.

Black Justice In A White World: A Memoir

black-studies

cnf

education-law-pedagogy

internet

Bruce Wright - 1996

New York Supreme Court Justice Bruce Wright has always been a man of controversy and conviction, a black man ready to take on the injustices of a white world.

In this candid memoir, Justice Wright writes as much about America in the 20th century as he does about his life during that time. Wright's remembrances will keep readers amused and astounded, as he recounts his unforgettable life, lived on his own terms. of photos.

The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism And The Erotics Of Consumption

Jon Stratton - 1996

From the mid-19th century onwards, the construction and representation of the body has been deeply implicated in the development of capitalist economies.

This study reveals how the ideologies of state power and gender politics become literally embodied, through an analysis of literature, art and film. Using accounts of commodity and sexual fetishism outlined by Marx and Engels, the book traces the relationship between desire and consumption.

HTML in Plain English: Hyper Test Markup Language

ref

reference

selling

textbooks-and-reference

Sandra E. Eddy - 1996

A powerful, concise reference guide, this book is for everyone who wants to create Web pages using HTML, from graphic artists, students, and computer programmers to business people.

These pages cover HTML 4.0 specifications and all active HTML tags from previous versions.

Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors

Mark Stefik - 1996

Rejecting the limiting metaphor of the information superhighway, the contributors propose four richer metaphors for the evolution of the Internet.The information superhighway is a metaphor oft used to describethe internet, used so often that Stefik fears we're in danger ofsubjecting the evolution of the net to the limiting implications of this metaphor.

Stefik, along with a host of prescient technothinkers and doers, examine four richer, more powerful metaphorsand their Jungian archetypes that together should expand anyone'sthinking about the cyber world... And those metaphors are: digitallibrary (The Keeper of Knowledge), electronic mail (Communicator), electronic marketplace (Trader), and digital world (Adventurer). The summoning of the archetypes in service of Stefik's argument isless silicon psychobabble than it is a compelling way to organize this book around the very real ways in which the net is being used.ContributorsThe I-Way as Publishing and Community Memory Vannevar Bush, J. C. R. Licklider, Robert E. Kahn, Joshua Lederberg, John Browning, Scott D. N. Cook, Vicky Reich, Mark Weiser, Ranjit Makkuni - The I-Way as a Communications Medium Lee Sproull, Samer Faraj, Jay Machado, Lynn Conway, Joshua Lederberg - Selling Goods and Services the I-Way Thomas Malone, Joanne Yates, Robert Benjamin, Laura Fillmore, Mark Stefik - The I-Way as a Gateway to Experience Pavel Curtis, Julian Dibbell, Harry Collins, Mark Stefik, John Seeley Brown, William Wulf, Barbara Viglizzo