Free Download Kevin Driscoll, "The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media"
English | ISBN: 0300248148 | 2022 | 328 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future
"A great book for anyone who wants to understand the early days of online communications."-Preston Gralla, Arts Fuse
Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks. The people who built and maintained these dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond. From ham radio operators to HIV/AIDS activists, these modem enthusiasts developed novel forms of community moderation, governance, and commercialization.
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