The Modem World

Auteur

Kevin Driscoll is assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the coauthor (with Julien Mailland) of Minitel: Welcome to the Internet.

Texte du rabat

This is a book about how the internet became social. The people who built and maintained dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond.