On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders is an absorbing chronicle of the inventive, individualistic, and often cantankerous individuals who set the Internet free. Michael A. Banks describes how the online population created a new culture and turned a new frontier into their vision of the future. This book will introduce you to the innovators who laid the foundation for the Internet and the World Wide Web, the man who invented online chat, and the people who invented the products all of us use online every day. Learn where, when, how and why the Internet came into being, and exactly what hundreds of thousands of people were doing online before the Web. See who was behind it all, and what inspired them.
- ISBN13 9781430250746
- Publish Date 24 October 2012 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint APress
- Edition 1st ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 236
- Language English