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In 1979, Ellis and fellow Duke University graduate student Tom Truscott came up with a plan to share "news" postings between computers. Early in 1980 "Usenet" (short for "user's network") was born and quickly spread around the early Internet. Later called "newsgroups", the bulletin boards allow people all over the world to participate in discussions on thousands of topics, which greatly facilitated the Internet's growth in the days before the World Wide Web was invented. Ellis died June 28 at home in Pennsylvania from non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 45. From This is True for 24 June 2001 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Wallace Wang List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $14.96 Editorial Review: Steal This File Sharing Book tackles the thorny issue of file sharing networks such as Kazaa, Morpheus, and Usenet. It explains how these networks work and how to use them. It exposes the dangers of using file sharing networks--including viruses, spyware, and lawsuits--and tells how to avoid them. In addition to covering how people use file sharing networks to share everything from music and video files to books and pornography, it also reveals how people use them to share secrets and censored information banned by their governments. Includes coverage of the ongoing battle between the software, video, and music pirates and the industries that are trying to stop them.  By: Michael HaubenRonda HaubenThomas Truscott List Price: $49.95 Amazon Price: $49.95 Editorial Review: A netizen, as Ronda and Michael Hauben use the term, is more than just somebody who uses the Internet. It is somebody who has demonstrated a devotion to being a good citizen of an online community. Some have been involved in constructing parts of the Net and forming it into a major social force. Others are simply members of mailing lists and discussion groups, quietly lending a helping hand to others and sharing information, support, and aid through the wires. The Haubens tell the history of the Internet through netizens. While it was technical necessity and political desire that made the Net happen, it was the often idealistic vision of the netizens that shaped it. The Haubens look at both sides--the technical problems being faced and the social ideas that guided the developers. They take both the outside developments in computing technology and governmental regulatory issues into account. Most of the emphasis of the book is on Usenet, the vast array of bulletin board-like message areas where people can find discussions about everything from the most esoteric scientific work in progress to the mundane necessities of daily life to off-the-wall treatments of pop culture. They show how it developed as a form of "poor man's ARPANET" to become a backbone of international conversation. The authors hold Usenet up as an example of user-controlled communication, showing how communities can be successful even in an area lacking formal rules--or lacking the means to enforce the rules. And while they stop short of exploring Usenet's current problems with commercial junk posts, they do explore the many previous predictions of the "imminent death of the Internet," showing how a devoted population of netizens has repeatedly been able to work around threats to its community's existence.Netizens, one of the first books detailing the Internet, looks at the creation and development of this participatory global computer network. The authors conducted online research to find out what makes the Internet "tick". This research results in an informative examination of the pioneering vision and actions that have helped make the Net possible. The book is a detailed description of the Net's construction and a step-by-step view of the past, present, and future of the Internet, the Usenet and the WWW. The book gives you the needed perspective to understand how the Net can impact the present and the turbulent future. These questions are answered: What is the vision that inspired or guided these people at each step? What was the technical or social problem or need that they were trying to solve? What can be done to help nourish the future extension and development of the Net? How can the Net be made available to a broader set of people?  List Price: $79.95 Amazon Price: $71.96 Editorial Review: This book provides an overview of interfaces to social information spaces, illustrated by several contemporary systems including Usenet News and CoWebs. Beginning with a general outline of those systems and a history of Usenet News, it looks at the problems of exploring virtual communities and distributed information systems, and of finding information in electronic environments. It outlines the successes and failures of traditional approaches like information filtering, collaborative filtering and information retrieval, and assesses new approaches such as visualisations of social processes and social navigation. Among the key questions covered are: From Usenet to CoWebs will be essential reading for practitioners working on information spaces, conferencing systems, virtual communities and innovative interfaces to information spaces. It will also provide useful background reading for anyone studying or researching in these areas. Get the News on Usenet: Using Newsgroups to Join the Conversation, Which Is A... By: Karl Mamer List Price: $10.95 Amazon Price: $9.31 Internet offers myriad ways to share opinions, views.(technology today): An a... By: Reid Goldsborough List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $9.95 Editorial Review: This digital document is an article from Community College Week, published by Thomson Gale on December 3, 2007. The length of the article is 833 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Internet offers myriad ways to share opinions, views.(technology today) Author: Reid Goldsborough Publication: Community College Week (Newspaper) Date: December 3, 2007 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 20 Issue: 8 Page: 24(1) Distributed by Thomson Gale |
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