Ed Krol
Auteur de Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog
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Œuvres de Ed Krol
THE WHOLE INTERNET 1 exemplaire
The whole Internet; 1 exemplaire
Le Monde Internet 1 exemplaire
Το βιβλίο του Internet η επόμενη γενιά 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1951-08-21
- Sexe
- male
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The whole Internet user's guide & catalog par Ed. Krol
The internet before the World Wide Web, when it seemed to be little more than a glorified remote file store with misplaced text files to discover.
Man, this thing was like a view over the horizon when I got a copy (third edition) in 1993. Its list of public-accessible FTP sites and telnet servers was likea starving man reading the menu from a four-star restaurant.
I used a Vax acount at Boston College to visit as many of these things as I could, regardless of what they offfered. The Drosophilia database? Sure! Cool! The Youngstown (OH) Freenet via telnet? Great, I spent lots of time there. "Zen and the Art of the Internet" in PostScript? Great, I can print it out...Wait, why is that angry man emerging from the print room with 700 sheets of paper?
Hah! Here's the receipt, still inside: Wordsworth Books in Boston, 5/08/93. Man, good times, good times...… (plus d'informations)
I used a Vax acount at Boston College to visit as many of these things as I could, regardless of what they offfered. The Drosophilia database? Sure! Cool! The Youngstown (OH) Freenet via telnet? Great, I spent lots of time there. "Zen and the Art of the Internet" in PostScript? Great, I can print it out...Wait, why is that angry man emerging from the print room with 700 sheets of paper?
Hah! Here's the receipt, still inside: Wordsworth Books in Boston, 5/08/93. Man, good times, good times...… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 8
- Membres
- 370
- Popularité
- #65,128
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 12
- Langues
- 5