How the Internet became commercial : innovation, privatization, and the birth of a new network

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Label

How the Internet became commercial : innovation, privatization, and the birth of a new network

Title remainder

innovation, privatization, and the birth of a new network

Statement of responsibility

Shane Greenstein

Creator

• Greenstein, Shane M

Subject

• Information technology -- Economic aspects
• Internet -- Economic aspects
• Internet industry -- History
• Media Studies
• Telecommunication -- Technological innovations
• Entrepreneurship

Language

eng

Summary

In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream - and how the commercialisation of the internet was by no means a foregone conclusion, as Shane Greenstein traces its evolution from government ownership to privatisation to the commercial Internet we know today

Member of

• Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

384.3

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Kauffman Foundation series on innovation and entrepreneurship

Target audience

specialized