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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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Język: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
2011.
Cham : Springer Nature |
| Seria: | Popular Science
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| Dostęp online: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme Istex Accès Université d'Orléans Accès INSA CVL |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Dot-Dash to Dot.Com, Texte imprimé, 9781441967596 • Dot-Dash to Dot.Com, Texte imprimé, 9781441967619 |
Spis treści:
- 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.