Netizens – On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet

Foreword

Preface: What is a Netizen?

Introduction

Chapter 1 – The Net and the Netizens: The Impact the Net has on People’s Lives

Chapter 2 — The Evolution of Usenet: The Poor Man’s Arpanet

Chapter 3 — The Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet

Chapter 4 — The World of Usenet

Chapter 5 — The Vision of Interactive Computing and the Future

Chapter 6 — Cybernetics, Time-sharing, Human-Computer Symbiosis and On-line Communities Creating a Supercommunity of On-Line Communities

Chapter 7 — Behind the Net: The Untold History of the ARPANET and Computer Science

Chapter 8 — The Birth and Development of the ARPANET

Chapter 9 – On the Early History and Impact of UNIX: Tools to Build the Tools for a New Millennium

Chapter 10 – On the Early Days of Usenet: The Roots of the Cooperative Online Culture

Chapter 11 — The NTIA Conference on the Future of the Net Creating a Prototype for a Democratic Decision Making Process

Chapter 12 — “Imminent Death of the Net Predicted!”

Chapter 13 — The Effect of the Net on the Professional News Media: The Usenet News Collective and Man-Computer News Symbiosis

Chapter 14 — The Net and the Future of Politics: The Ascendancy of the Commons

Chapter 15 – Exploring New York City’s On-Line Community: A Snapshot of NYC.General

Chapter 16 — The Expanding Commonwealth of Learning: Printing and the Net

Chapter 17 — `Arte’: An Economic Perspective

Chapter 18 — The Computer as Democratizer

Bibliography

Glossary of Acronyms

Proposed draft Declaration of the Rights of Netizens