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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ect to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that co... .... It can be accessed through the author’s Web site at http://www.jz.org. Set in Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in... ...a by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zittrain, Jonathan ( Jonathan L.), 1969– The future o... ...ally updated spreadsheets were immensely more powerful than static tables of numbers generated through the use of calculators, and relational database... ...nect homes to the wider world? A natural answer would be to piggyback on the telephone network, which was already set up to convey people’s voices fro... ...lar Tim Wu and others have pointed out how difficult it was at first to put the telephone network to any new purpose,not for technical reasons, but for o... ...ffling the conversation. Over 125,000 units were sold. As the monopoly utility telephone provider, AT&T faced specialized regula- tion from the U.S. Fed... ... each knew one another. Some new FIDOnet installations had the wrong dial-in numbers for their peers, which meant that computers were calling people i... ...time a computer did not answer. “T o impress on you the seriousness of wrong numbers in the node list,” Jen- nings wrote, “imagine you are a poor old ...

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