The Ghost In The Labyrinth: On the threshold of the Internet dream - Couverture souple

Kruger, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0954097750 ISBN 13 : 9780954097752

Editeur : Steinkrug Publications Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

In 1993, a small hi-tech company carried out an ambitious, if rather unconventional, communications experiment, taking a pioneering journey into a mythical virtual space where, two decades later, we would spend most of our waking hours. Digithurst was founded at the height of Britain’s microcomputer boom, when Sinclair and Acorn were household names and Cambridge was merely phenomenal rather than a phenomenon. Shaped by a personal quest and the paranoia that gripped the East European diaspora at the end of the cold war, the company grew out of a back bedroom and built the first video in windows hardware, computer systems to sell German women new hairstyles and French men French letters, and created Britain’s first online newspaper. The book describes how the Internet destroyed the EU’s plan for its own pan-European network, side-lined its media and telecoms industry, and created a social media which has become as corrosive as it is compelling

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Steinkrug Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0954097750
• ISBN 13: 9780954097752
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg