The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future “A great book for anyone who wants to understand the early days of online communications.”—Preston Gralla, Arts Fuse Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks. The people who built and maintained these dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of...