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On the Way to the Web
by Andrew McCaskey
Book Review
On The Way to The Web – by Michael A Banks – The Secret History of the Internet and its Founders. [ISBN 978-1-4302-0869-3] If you were active in the world of small computers from S-100 days of the late 1970′s and early 1980′s forward, you’ll enjoy a quick read of this book.
The ARPANET saga beginning in 1969 is well told and familar. What’s left out in the retelling by most other authors is the incredible energy of the various online services such as GE Information Services, Compuserve, Delphi and others. All were struggling mightily with consumers who would not or could not pay the $60 or $100 per hour charges of services such as Lockheed’s NEXIS or the Dow Jones Information Service. How the Compuserve CB Simulator and the worlds of gaming and chat sucked in consumers and their wallets.
The WELL, the SOURCE, Prodigy, the birth of AOL, e-World, PeopleLINK, GEIS, GENIE,PC-Link, ByteInformationExchange – are all there with scores of others.
What we take for granted today – from the protocol TCP/IP and the ability to communicate on a common email system to the ability to move files about – have some very deep roots in those formative years. And the struggle for monetization and search for a business model was as much of a struggle for those entreprenuers as it is for those of us today trying to figure out new media, social media and rest.
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