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Detailed Table of Contents The Big Picture Looking at What, Not How Structure of the Book Part I The Telephone Company for Computers Computers The Telephone Network Clients and Servers Summary: The Telephone Company for Computers Files Signals Suck It and See Files of Words Visualizing Discourse A CHANGING RELATIONSHIP WITH TEXT    Mesopotamia dot COM    The Solitary Reader    The Logic of the Book THE FLAVOR OF TEXT ON THE INTERNET    Hypertext - Connection Made Manifest    Breaking Down Barriers    What We Were After All Along? Files of Pictures Image File Guts - Pictures as 0s and 1s Pictures are Cool Visual Knowledge Photographs Art Files of Sound and Motion Sound as 0s and 1s Streaming Audio MP3 Internet Radio Broadcasting Internet Radio Video on the Web Files of Logic Smart Servers Smart Servers - Business to Business Smart Clients Downloading Programs The Telephone Company for Computers Part II Open Standards Standards and Communication File Types File Standards Standards and the Birth of the Web Standards Today Open Standards Open vs. Proprietary Standards Open Standards and Growth The Power of Cooperation Searching the Web Push vs. Pull Catalogs, Search Engines, and Portals Mechanizing Meaning Metadata Sort of Meta Real Metadata Bandwidth and the World Wide Wait The Local Loop The Internet The Internet Service Provider (ISP) Traffic on the Internet Bandwidth Speeding up the Internet Network Speeding Up the Local Loop In the Interim Speed in Both Directions BROADBAND SOLUTIONS    Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) and the Poor, Deaf Telephone Company    Cable TV    Fiber    Wireless Options Accessibility Issues Cost and Convergence Why Bandwidth Matters Content and Connection Bundling Bundling in a Broadband World Bundling Access and ISPs Public Networks Connect Content, Connection and Convergence History Repeats Itself The Pricing Issue The Infrastructure Challenge Part III Individuals in Conversation Communication and Exchange The Power of Publishing The Power To Exchange The Creator's Tool of Choice Using Files for Communication and Exchange Visualizing Discourse Internet Time Discourse and the Shaping of Content Sharing and Amplifying Intellectual Capital Formation of Community Conveying Presence Reaching the Niche Audience A Small Corner of Cyberspace Victorian Email Enhancing Physical Communities The Virtual Corporation The Community that Created the Internet Doing Good and Showing Off Open Source Transparency and Complexity Cyberspace is Earth Conversations Driving Change The Free Flow of Information Access Changes Structure Everyone's an Operator The Price in the Marketplace The Marketplace Itself A Market of One An Outbreak of Sanity Illumination and Formalization Transparency Epiphanies of Context Welcome to the Renaissance   BACK

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