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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Internet," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Internet in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Internet when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Internet, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Internet," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Internet in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Internet when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Internet, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Internet," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Internet in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Internet when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Internet, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Michael Hart called it NeoMass Production [TM] in 1971...
and published the U.S. Declaration of Independence on the
and no one was listening...or were they?........ ... Read more

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This resource is a guide to historical sites around the globe as presented on Internet sites. Organized by continent, a variety of complete Internet addresses are accompanied by activities that allow for subject integration across the curriculum. ... Read more

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Today more than one billion people worldwide use the Internet for communication, shopping, business, and research. But in the last five years they have lost over $10 billion to malicious computer attacks alone. Is there a way to keep the benefits and avoid the problems?

The Internet and Society: A Reference Handbook explores both the positive aspects of the Internet and its darker side. Topically organized, it chronicles the background and history of the Internet, with a focus on the 1960s and beyond. Through analysis of the latest research in sociology, political science, economics, law, and computer science, it examines problems, varieties of cybercrime, controversies, and solutions related to the Internet's phenomenal growth. It also illuminates the likely directions of the Internet's future and the ongoing challenges it presents to societies around the globe.

Customer Reviews (3)

Works well with Tapestry Of Grace curriculum
We accidentally bought this book instead of the other larger book for use with Tapestry of Grace Year 1 homeschool curriculum.We had to go ahead and buy the thicker, more detailed book for my 3rd-4th grade students but kept this one on the shelf.We found that the Tapestry recommended reading for the K-2nd levels was a very sparse and this book, although not on their lesson plans or listed as a supplement, filled the bill nicely!

Great book for getting started on the topic
At first glance, it seemed an overly brief and cursory overview of ancient civilization as it only spends a couple of pages per civilization and/or empire.My son who is in second grade, on the other hand, really enjoyed it and wanted to read it multiple times.All in all, it is a great book for getting started on the topic and will encourage further exploration in depth by supplementing with other substantial books and/or DVDs on each ancient civilization/ empire.

Great homeschooling resource for ages 6-12
We use this book in conjunction with My Father's World Creation to the Greeks curriculum.I already owned the thicker, larger, more comprehensive "Ancient World" from Usborne and thought we would just use that in this book's place, but found it was not as child-friendly and easy to read.The difference was enough to lead me to purchase this version.It has been a great addition for us, giving us just enough information for the subjects we are covering when used in conjunction with other resources.If we want to know even more, then we can move on to the larger text (my 12 year old is inclined to do this).Otherwise, this book is perfect for our needs. ... Read more

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Explores the history of the Internet--how it was developed and refined, the people involved, and future possibilities. ... Read more

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The Romans
I am a homeschooling mom of 4 (11,9,5,3) and I purchased "The Famous Men of Rome" from Memoria Press.While I liked to book, I knew that I would lose my children and not be able to keep them interested.I decided to purchase this book and I'm certainly glad that I did.The book coversso much more and really gives an idea on what life was like during that time. While studying the people are important, I wanted my kids to see how they dressed, what they ate, what they did for entertainment, how the coins looked, etc. It's just a great book and I recommend it.

An excellent historical guide for young readers.
This educational, informative and handsomely illustrated book, from the Usborne Illustrated World History series, is an excellent visual reference for young readers.
It offers an in-depth look at Roman civilization, from the founding of the city of Rome to the decline and fall of the empire to the birth and evolution of Constantinople and the city of Byzantium. Topics such as history, sociology, politics, economy, culture and religion are covered. This book is also packed with colorful pictures, detailed diagrams, realistic drawings, accurate reconstructions, and handy maps to help illustrate the points being explained and give the reader a vivid look into Roman history.
As a bonus, this book has a wonderful appendix that contains:
* A glossary that explains Latin and Latin-derived terms used throughout the text.
* A collection of mini biographies of key figures in Roman history.
* A date chart from around 2,000 BC to 1453 AD outlining relevant events and significant historical developments that took place both in the Roman world and elsewhere during this period.
* A summary of the most important ways in which we were influenced by the Romans in building techniques, travel and communications, architecture, the arts, language, law, government, literature and ideas.
* A thorough index for quick check-ups and specific consultations.
Although this book was published in 1990, so some of the information in it may no longer be completely accurate, it is still a beautiful, entertaining and complete reference for children, and a fun, effective teaching tool for adults.
Other recommended titles from this series: First Civilizations and The Greeks.
--Reviewed by M. E. Volmar ... Read more

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From a few university students and scientists, to almost everybody in the developed world - in less than ten years. The story of the Internet is the story of the fastest growing phenomenon in technology the world has ever seen, making people richer than ever before. The only thing certain about the Internet today is that nobody has ever seen anything like it before! ... Read more

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Not as advertised
Although this is advertised as a Level 3 (pre-intermediate) Penguin Reader, it is actually a Level 5 (upper intermediate).It is also in British English, which should be noted on the review, as it's difficult enough to teach people American English without confusing them with British English. ... Read more

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According to media critic Geert Lovink, the Internet is being closed off by corporations and governments intent on creating a business and information environment free of dissent. Calling himself a radical media pragmatist, Lovink envisions an Internet culture that goes beyond the engineering culture that spawned it to bring humanities, user groups, social movements, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), artists, and cultural critics into the core of Internet development.In Dark Fiber, Lovink combines aesthetic and ethical concerns and issues of navigation and usability without ever losing sight of the cultural and economic agendas of those who control hardware, software, content, design, and delivery. He examines the unwarranted faith of the cyber-libertarians in the ability of market forces to create a decentralized, accessible communication system. He studies the inner dynamics of hackers? groups, Internet activists, and artists, seeking to understand the social laws of online life. Finally, he calls for the injection of political and economic competence into the community of freedom-loving cyber-citizens, to wrest the Internet from corporate and state control.The topics include the erosion of email, bandwidth for all, the rise and fall of dot-com mania, techno-mysticism, sustainable social networks, the fight for a public Internet time standard, the strategies of Internet activists, mailing list culture, and collaborative text filtering. Stressing the importance of intercultural collaboration, Lovink includes reports from Albania, where NGOs and artists use new media to combat the country?s poverty and isolation; from Taiwan, where the September 1999 earthquake highlighted the cultural politics of the Internet; and from Delhi, where a new media center explores free software, public access, and Hindi interfaces. ... Read more

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Highly recommended
(Planeta.com Journal) -Dark fiber is optical fiber infrastructure (cabling and repeaters) that is currently in place but is not being used. It's a brilliant metaphor for the ideas that are covered in this book. A brilliant thinker working at the intersection of net criticism and social activism, Lovink has figured prominently in cyberculture for the past decade. He discusses the rise and fall of dotcom mania, the erosion of email, debates over a common Internet time standard, virtual communities, and the clashes and synergies among governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Highly recommended. ... Read more

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Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web provides for the first time a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians--teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts--who wish to produce online historical work or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium.

The book takes the reader step by step through planning a project, understanding the technologies involved and how to choose the appropriate ones, designing a site that is both easy to use and scholarly, digitizing materials in a way that makes them web-friendly while preserving their historical integrity, and reaching and responding to an intended audience effectively. It also explores the repercussions of copyright law and fair use for scholars in a digital age and examines more cutting-edge web techniques involving interactivity, such as sites that use the medium to solicit and collect historical artifacts. Finally, the book provides basic guidance for ensuring that the digital history the reader creates will not disappear in a few years. Throughout, Digital History maintains a realistic sense of the advantages and disadvantages of putting historical documents, interpretations, and discussions online.

The authors write in a tone that makes Digital History accessible to those with little knowledge of computers, while including a host of details that more technically savvy readers will find helpful. And although the book focuses particularly on historians, those working in related fields in the humanities and social sciences will also find this to be a useful introduction. Digital History builds upon more than a decade of experience and expertise in creating pioneering and award-winning work by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University ... Read more

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Digital history - indispensable, yet a good read

Practical. comprehensive,philosophical guide for any web user.This book is extensively annotated and illustrated - Deft and witty, it isa boon to academics and the restof us in understanding the revolution to the way we think about framing our world, it's past and present and preserving it in digital form accurately efficiently and cheaply.

Informative and amusing
A remarkable mix of history and "xml", presented with a readable and often amusing text. The "screenshot" examples were very helpful. ... Read more

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The diverse forms of Internet art and the tools and equipment used to create them are discussedand placed within the wider cultural context.

When the Internet emerged as a mass global communication network in the mid-1990s, artists immediately recognized the exciting possibilities for creative innovation that came with it. After a century of unprecedented artistic experimentation, individuals and groups were quick to use the new technologies to question and radically redefine the conventions of art, and to tackle some of the most pressing social, political, and ethical issues of the day.

Covering email art, Web sites, artist-designed software, and projects that blur the boundaries between art and design, product development, political activism, and communication, Internet Art shows how artists have employed online technologies to engage with the traditions of art history, to create new forms of art, and to move into fields of activity normally beyond the artistic realm. The book investigates the ways Internet art resists and shifts assumptions about authorship, originality, and intellectual property; the social role of the artist; issues of identity, sexuality, economics, and power; and the place of the individual in the virtual, networked age.

Throughout, the views of artists, curators, and critics offer an insider's perspective on the subject, while a timeline and glossary provide easy-to-follow guides to the key works, events, and technological developments that have taken art into the twenty-first century. 200 illustrations, 100 in color. ... Read more

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A Pathbreaking Resource
This book offers the very best of the World of Art Series' reference-based scholarship.Parallelled in the series only by the contributions of Hans Richter and Roselee Goldberg (most likely because Greene shares with these scholars the distinction of being a firsthand participant-observer in the phenomena she describes), this book is a wonderfully comprehensive and readable introduction to an arcane, subterranean art history.This will surely be considered the guidebook for a largely uncharted territory in contemporary art.

About the book
I read an article about this book/author in a recent issue of Time Out New York. At first I didn't think I would be remotely interested in the subject matter. It seemed pretty random. But the article really piqued my interest in the field. After reading the book INTERNET ART, I think internet art might be the most intriguing contemporary art practice out there. This book has a great balance of insider experience, 20th century art history, and handholding for novices (which I am). A really good resource.

Fascinating new field
I am an avid reader about contemporary art and I found this book pushed buttons and raised questions I had never even thought of... it's clear that the internet is a defining medium, especially for younger generations, and this book helped me think about the net in a more critical and expansive way. I love the World of Art series and recommend its titles to those trying to get their minds around art and art history. This book was great and I especially liked author's use of the non-net art examples including Tiravanija, Valie Export, and Cindy Sherman.

Books Are Not Net.Art
In the end, for all its fury (and New Mediasts and Anarchists worked side-by-side in the 1990s) revolutionary art was caught in contradictions. It could not or would not break free of the forms of bourgeois media culture as a whole. Its content and method could become transformations of the hierarchial media but, while net art remained imprisoned within the social spectacle, its transformations remained imaginary. Rather than enter into direct social conflict with the old media it criticized, it transferred the whole problem into an abstract and inoffensive sphere where it functioned objectively as a force consolidating all it wanted to destroy. Revolt against push media became the evasion of push media. Marx's original critique of the genesis of religious myth and ideology applies word-for-word to the rebellion of bourgeois network art: it too "is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. It is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people" [Marx, Contribution to the critique of Hegel's "Philosophy of Right"]. ... Read more

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Needs better citation
I am in grad school and we had to read this book. Normally I am happy with the books my professors pick, but this was a first class professor. The Citations are TERRIBLE-barely 20 per chapter and the sources are not good. There are barely, if any, primary sources. And sadly the book is dated. Most of its sources on computer use and teacher reponses are from 1996/1997. I would say a new edition needs to be written, but the original book is so poor I wouldn't bother. ... Read more

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Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance—geographical, temporal, or emotional—theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work—showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns—At a Distance effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art is technologically determined. Doing so, it provides the historical grounding needed for a more complete understanding of today's practices of Internet art and activism and suggests the possibilities inherent in networked practice.

At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Although the projects differed, a conceptual questioning of the "art object," combined with a political undermining of dominant art institutional practices, animated most distance art. After a section that sets this work in historical and critical perspective, the book presents artists and others involved in this art "re-viewing" their work—including experiments in "mini-FM," telerobotics, networked psychoanalysis, and interactive book construction. Finally, the book recasts the history of networks from the perspectives of politics, aesthetics, economics, and cross-cultural analysis. ... Read more

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Surprise! New media aren't about technology
At a Distance makes a convincing case for an analog prehistory of the Internet. Read this book and discover a genealogy for today's electronic culture that comes from musicians and mail artists instead of geeks and gizmos.

If the Internet's technical pedigree hails from the RAND Corporation, Berkeley, and MIT, At a Distance proves that its social wellsprings span a much wider geography of creative eruptions, from Mexico's estridentistas to Brazil's Xerofilms, from Tokyo's Mini-FM to Brisbane's InterRaves. As a network artist and critic, I fancied before I read this book that I had a pretty good handle on precursors to Internet art. But I was enlightened--and a bit overwhelmed--by the rich lode of unfamiliar history dug up by the authors of this anthology.

In fact, one of my few criticisms of the book would be that the editors seem to have trouble corralling all of these dispersed activities into a coherent historical shape. With the exception of a couple large-scale topics like Fluxus, each essay addresses a different micro-movement in isolation, without comparing or contrasting them. This may be consistent with the ethic of many of the works, as exemplified by Fluxus artist George Brecht's prescription for "a network of active points all equidistant from the center." Nevertheless, I found it hard to grasp the larger picture of new media's family tree without knowing more about the affiliations and antagonisms of its branches.

Apart from the relationships among these movements, another set of dots the reader must connect on her own lies between the examples of networked art of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s and Net art of the 1990s and 2000s. With the exception of Tilman Baumgaertel's essay--which is also the only contribution to touch on the critical precedent of Conceptual art--there are very few references to actual artworks from today's electronic networks.

These quibbles aside, At a Distance contains enough new research to plug a good number of holes in the late 20th-century art historical record, and the editors at least attempt to unite the material via some thematic generalizations--probably the most important of which is that networks are about connecting people rather than Ethernet cables. Besides, given the isolated nature of the commentaries you really don't need to read the book's pages in order anyhow. Readers inspired by John Cage's random juxtapositions may want to work backwards from the index, slicing through the book by following references to specific movements or people like Ray Johnson or Radio art.

However you approach this text, it's a great antidote to the Wired-inspired myopia that focuses on the latest gadget or trend.

predecessors for Internet communication and activist art
"The cultural convergence of art, science, and technology provides ample opportunity to challenge the very notion of how art is produced and to call into question its subject matter and its function in society...Envisoned as a catalyst for enterprise, research, and creative and scholarly experimentation, the [Leonard] book series enables diverse intellectual communities to explore common grounds of expertise." The 20 collected articles by professors, artists, curators, and writers in this book in the Leonard series from MIT press fulfill this purpose. The global communications network for organizing and reporting the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999, email art, computer-created and disseminated music, and telecommunication are among the subjects examined in exploring the new forms of art and activism with the erosion of the lines between art, communication, technology, and computer science in contemporary culture. The international group of artists known as Fluxus, which celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2002, is but one activist group whose aim is the "elimination of art as a special activity." The essays offer new, out-of-the-box, perspectives on different much-publicized events (such as the Seattle demonstrations) and report on representative and influential groups, activities, and individuals that are little known by general readers. The essays as a whole give an unrivaled, panoramic view of what is going on in the broad, modern-day field which has come to be known as the media. As much perspective as possible on this widely diversified, extraordinarily, almost preternaturally, vibrant, and continually evolving field is given in showing the sources and precedents of the ideas and activities. Some of these sources and precedents are surprising and intriguing. But this is what one expects from this collection of essays working toward a new, relevant way of seeing the world being shaped by the new media and technology.

Before We Linked Up We Were Even Then Linking Up
MIT Press impresses with another beautifully designed book, presented as an anthology of "precursors to art and activism on the internet."Editors Chandler and Neumark set the tone in their introduction by attempting to refute recent scholarship which finds both alpha and omega on the WWW, suggesting, no insisting, that there was indeed life before HTML.It's an interesting collection of documents, some from sources very far afield, most all of them fascinating both to look back on in nostalgia, others we watch and recall with amazement amounting to shock, for they describe experiments in the past which we are repeating again to our diminishment.

John Held, Jr., provides a succinct account of "Mail Art Exhibition," reminding us of Mail Art's utopian beginnings within the gathered contexts of Fluxus and Black Mountain experimentation (1940s, 1950s),When he recalls the "vanished borders" that Mail Art was supposed to float blithely over, we think now with bitterness of the tracking devices with which it is said we are going to now be adding to all of our overseas mail, not to mention our passports.For every innovation, comes a reduction in our personal freedom--such is true of the net as well of course with its "cookies" etc.

Melody Sumner Carnahan contirbutes a charming memoir of working with some visionary artists in the far-away, long-ago 1980s while creating Burning Books and allied artists projects.by turns her writing is hilarious, wry, witty and quite touching.Roy Ascott is a little scary recalling the psychic experiments of the 1960s, including X FILES type of parapsychology experiments, which even in the Cold War represented some kind of like minds thinking in Russia and the US.I love him meeting up with Luiz Antonio Gasparetto, a "Brazilian psyhcic who demonstrated the ability to paint four paintings, each in the style of a different 'modern master,' siumultaneously with his feet and hands."Ascott managed to film Gasparetto doing this!Wish I had access to that footage!In general the individual art object is downplayed, a characteristic of current art practice, in favor of networked and relational (often "serial") projects.

Though the book seems strangely Bay Area-cenrric, I have the suspicion this is entirely coincidental, or perhaps more than anything else it is a symptom of our propensity here to work communally and to ignore as far as possible the ego drives of the individual artist.John Bischoff's account of Mills College (Oakland) as the center for the "LEAGUE OF AUTOMATIC MUSIC COMPOSERS" is a mind-shiveringly inspiring version of the same.Funny that the book comes to us all the way from Sydney, Australia, where the two editors both work at the University of Technology there. ... Read more

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Usborne Internet-Linked World History is a series of lavishly produced reference works, which will be of interest to children and adults alike. Value is added to this book with a comprehensive 30-page fact-finder section, packed with useful information including a who's who, time chart, guide to Roman sites, glossary, map of the empire, military formations, lists of gods and goddesses and a full index. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Internet Bookwatch, published by Midwest Book Review on August 1, 2010. The length of the article is 779 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Instant Reproducibles for 20 Exciting Internet Explorations That Enrich Learning and Get Kids Web-Savvy
Great for Independent Learning!
Where can you find complete information about key events in our nation's history? The Internet, of course! Reproducible worksheets with comprehension questions and graphic organizers guide students to gather information about Native Americans, early explorers, Pilgrims, the colonies, westward expansion, the Civil War, and even the race to space. A perfect way to boost students' Internet research skills! ... Read more