Foreword: By Tom
Truscott
Preface:
What is a Netizen?
Introduction:
Participatory Networks
Chapter 1 - The Net and the Netizens: The Effect
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: Computer Science and the Untold Story of the
ARPANET
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
Appendix
Proposed draft Declaration of the Rights of Netizens