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The Internet and Beyond

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  • © 1998

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  1. S. Sim

    1. British Telecommunications Research Laboratories, UK

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  2. J. Davies

    1. British Telecommunications Research Laboratories, UK

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Part of the book series: BT Telecommunications Series (BTTS, volume 15)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Internet — Past, Present and Future

    • S. P. Sim, S. Rudkin
    Pages 1-24

  3. Electronic Commerce Comes to the ‘Net’

    • J. A. Edelheit, M. R. Miller
    Pages 25-37

  4. Electronic Payment Systems

    • P. Putland, J. Hill, D. Tsapakidis
    Pages 38-50

  5. Trusted Third Parties in Electronic Commerce

    • P. J. Skevington, T. P. Hart
    Pages 51-61

  6. Cryptography, Trusted Third Parties and Escrow

    • S. J. D. Phoenix
    Pages 62-95

  7. Challenges for Copyright in a Digital Age

    • I. D. Bramhill, M. R. C. Sims
    Pages 96-118

  8. Content Production and Delivery for Interactive Multimedia Services — A New Approach

    • R. Walker, P. Foster, S. G. Banthorpe
    Pages 119-131

  9. Media Engineering

    • S. M. West, M. T. Norris
    Pages 132-152

  10. Firewalling the Net

    • S. D. Hubbard, J. C. Sager
    Pages 153-178

  11. Unleashing the Intranet

    • R. Cochrane
    Pages 179-191

  12. BT Healthnet — An Early Intranet Case Study

    • A. J. Frost
    Pages 192-210

  13. Campusworld and BT’s On-Line Educational Services

    • P. C. Leveridge
    Pages 211-220

  14. BT Propnet — A Commercial Property Trading Service for the Internet

    • J. Wittgreffe, G. Hobbs, S. Berresford, K. Fisher, S. McRae
    Pages 221-230

  15. Internet Phone — Changing the Telephony Paradigm?

    • R. Babbage, I. Moffat, A. O’Neill, S. Sivaraj
    Pages 231-254

  16. Distributed Objects on the Web

    • R. J. Briscoe
    Pages 255-283

  17. Network Computing

    • M. C. Revett, M. D. T. Knul, L. Stephens
    Pages 284-297

  18. Three-Dimensional Internet Developments

    • M. Crossley, N. J. Davies, R. J. Taylor-Hendry, A. J. McGrath
    Pages 298-326

  19. Networked Information Management

    • N. J. Davies, M. C. Revett
    Pages 327-353

  20. Real-Time Applications on the Internet

    • S. Rudkin, A. Grace, M. W. Whybray
    Pages 354-388
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We live in exciting times. We have over the last few years seen the birth of a new telecommunications service which will fundamentally change the way we live, much as the telephone has over the last 100 years. The birth of the Internet can be traced back to a conference on computer communications held in 1972. As a result of that conference a working group was set up, under the chairmanship of Vint Cerf, to propose new protocols to facilitate computer communications. In 1974 the working group published the transmission control protocol (fCP) and the Interworking protocol (lP). These were rapidly adopted and the number of computers linked using these protocols has almost doubled every year since. Thus the Internet was born. Another major step happened in 1990. Tim Berners Lee, a Scottish nuclear physicist working at CERN, created some higher level protocols. These still used TCP/IP for the networking, but defined how computers could communicate multimedia information and be linked together to form a World Wide Web of information. A number of computer databases adopted these protocols and things really took off in 1993 when Marc Andreesen at the University of Illinois developed Mosaic, the first client software (a browser) that gave a windows-style interface to these databases.

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  • British Telecommunications Research Laboratories, UK

    S. Sim, J. Davies

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