Getting the Web : Understanding the Nature and Meaning of the Internet Book

	The Big Picture	13
	Looking at What, Not How	14
	Structure of the Book	16
Part I
	The Telephone Company for Computers	21
	Computers	22
	The Telephone Network	27
	Clients and Servers	27
	Summary: The Telephone Company for Computers	30
	Files	32
	Signals	32
	Suck It and See	33
	Files of Words	35
	Visualizing Discourse	36
	A Changing Relationship with Text
	Mesopotamia dot COM	37
	The Solitary Reader	39
	The Logic of the Book	40
	The Flavor of Text on the Internet
	Hypertext--Connection Made Manifest	42
	Breaking Down Barriers	43
	What We Were After All Along?	43
	Files of Pictures	45
	Image File Guts-Pictures as 0s and 1s	46
	Pictures are Cool	47
	Visual Knowledge	48
	Photographs	49
	Art	50
	Files of Sound and Motion	52
	Sound as 0s and 1s	52
	Streaming Audio	53
	MP3	54
	Internet Radio	56
	Broadcasting Internet Radio	58
	Video on the Web	59
	Files of Logic	61
	Smart Servers	62
	Smart Servers-Business to Business	65
	Smart Clients	66
	Downloading Programs	66
	The Telephone Company for Computers	67
Part II
	Open Standards	71
	Standards and Communication	71
	File Types	72
	File Standards	73
	Standards and the Birth of the Web	73
	Standards Today	74
	Open Standards	75
	Open vs. Proprietary Standards	76
	Open Standards and Growth	77
	The Power of Cooperation	78
	Searching the Web	80
	Push vs. Pull	82
	Catalogs, Search Engines, and Portals	83
	Mechanizing Meaning	85
	Metadata	86
	Sort of Meta	87
	Real Metadata	88
	Bandwidth and the World Wide Wait	91
	The Local Loop	92
	The Internet	95
	The Internet Service Provider (ISP)	96
	Traffic on the Internet	96
	Bandwidth	97
	Speeding up the Internet Network	99
	Speeding Up the Local Loop	100
	In the Interim	101
	Speed in Both Directions	102
	Broadband Solutions
	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) and the Poor, Deaf Phone Company	103
	Cable TV	105
	Fiber Optics	106
	Wireless Options	106
	Accessibility Issues	107
	Cost and Convergence	108
	Why Bandwidth Matters	108
	Content and Connection	111
	Bundling	111
	Bundling in a Broadband World	112
	Bundling Access and ISPs	113
	Public Networks Connect	115
	Content, Connection and Convergence	115
	History Repeats Itself	116
	The Pricing Issue	117
	The Infrastructure Challenge	118
Part III
	Individuals in Conversation	121
	Communication and Exchange	121
	The Power of Publishing	123
	The Power To Exchange	124
	The Creator's Tool of Choice	124
	Using Files for Communication and Exchange	125
	Visualizing Discourse	127
	Internet Time	128
	Discourse and the Shaping of Content	129
	Sharing and Amplifying Intellectual Capital	130
	Formation of Community	132
	Conveying Presence	133
	Reaching the Niche Audience	134
	A Small Corner of Cyberspace	135
	Victorian Email	135
	Enhancing Physical Communities	136
	The Virtual Corporation	137
	The Community that Created the Internet	138
	Doing Good and Showing Off	138
	Open Source	139
	Transparency and Complexity	140
	Cyberspace is Earth	141
	Conversations Driving Change	143
	The Free Flow of Information	144
	Access Changes Structure	145
	Everyone's an Operator	147
	The Price in the Marketplace	147
	The Marketplace Itself	148
	A Market of One	149
	An Outbreak of Sanity	151
	Illumination and Formalization	152
	Transparency	153
	Epiphanies of Context	155
	Welcome to the Renaissance	157
	Glossary	161
	Bibliography	167
	Index	169