{"id":129,"date":"2005-07-11T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2005\/07\/11\/book-from-gutenberg-to-internet\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T15:11:20","slug":"book-from-gutenberg-to-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2005\/07\/11\/book-from-gutenberg-to-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: From Gutenberg to Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Announcement from the author, Jeremy Norman
\nFrom Gutenberg to the Internet: A Sourcebook on the History of Information Technology
\n(Amazon link<\/a>)
\nISBN 0-930405-87-0.
\n– 63 original readings from the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications
\n– basic discoveries from the 1830s through the 1960s
\n– trace historic steps from the early nineteenth century development of telegraph systems-the first data networks- through the development of the earliest general-purpose progammable computers and the earliest software, to the foundation in 1969 of ARPANET.
\n– review early developments and ideas in the history of information technology that eventually led to the convergence of computing, data networking, and telecommunications in the Internet.
\n– illustrated historical introduction concerning the impact of the Internet on book culture.
\n– compares and contrasts the transition from manuscript to print initiated by Gutenberg’s invention of printing by moveable type in the 15th century with the transition that began in the mid-19th century from a print-centric world to the present world in which printing co-exists with various electronic media that converged to form the Internet.
\n– a comprehensive and wide-ranging annotated timeline covering selected developments in the
\nhistory of information technology from the year 100 up to 2004
\n– introductory notes to each reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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