Things To Worry About:
The Internet & Freedom of Information
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Always remember that half the population is below average, and it is even worse on Facebook. — G.E. Nordell
The destruction of the information system . . . is a technique of propaganda thats extremely effective.
Its working, and the effects are lethal. — philosopher-activist Noam Chomsky
Books on Internet Issues and History
browse bestselling books on Computers & Technology at Amazon
 | "Mrs. Dalloway" novel [Hogarth Press May 1925] by Virginia Woolf
Details of a day in the life - similar to Joyce's "Ulysses" - of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-WWI England; Clarissa goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening, which is also described in detail. Critics are recently saying that "Mrs. Dalloway" is 'the first novel of the internet' - hogwash! - because Clarissa believes that her parties offer 'the gift' of connectedness to the inhabitants of London (and somehow are an ancestor of online social media). Kindle Edition from Canterbury Classics [DUE 10/2022] for $4.99 Kindle Edition from e-artnow [5/2013] for 99’ Mariner Books mass pb [5/90] out of print/used indep 9x6 pb [3/2022] for $5.65 Classic Wisdom Reprint 9x6 hardcover [1/2021] for $11.58 1953 pb edition available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive |
 | "Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises and Threatens To Transform Business and Society" [1991] by Howard Rheingold Simon & Schuster 8½x5½ pb [8/92] for $23.89 Summit Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [7/91] out of print/90+ used |
 | "From Memex To Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and The Mind's Machine" [1991] Edited by James M. Nyce & Paul Kahn Kindle Edition from Academic Press [1992 edition] for $63.18 {sic} Academic Press 9x6 hardcover [12/91] for $66.51 |
 | "Zen and The Art of The Internet: A Beginner's Guide" [1992] by Brendan P. Kehoe [1970-2011] well-known, accessible guide; topics include the World Wide Web, e-mail, 'netiquette', downloading files, Usenet, commercial services, resources, HTML coding, and keeping children safe on the Internet 255-page P.T.R. Prentice Hall 4th edition 9¼x7 pb [10/95] out of print/used 255-page P.T.R. Prentice Hall 4th edition 9¼x7 pb [10/95] out of print/used 96-page? Tredition Classics 8x5 pb [2/2013] for $25.95 96-page? Tredition Classics 8x5 hardcover [2/2013] for $34.99 |
 | "The Virtual Community: Homesteading On The Electronic Frontier" [1993] by Howard Rheingold (an early and very active member on The WELL) Kindle Edition from M.I.T. Press [2000 edition] for $22.20 M.I.T. Press 9x6 pb [11/2000] for $23.37 Perseus Books 10x6½ hardcover [10/93] out of print/100+ used |
 | "Navigating In Cyberspace: Roadmaps To The New Millennium" [1995] by Canadian futurist Frank Ogden [1920-2012] Macfarlane, Walter & Ross 9½x6¼ hardcover & CD-ROM [10/95] out of print/used author's website |
 | "Designing Web Graphics: How To Prepare Images & Media For The Web"[1996] by Lynda Weinman After looking for an introductory book for a design class that she was teaching, and finding none, Lynda Weinman wrote this massively successful textbook, a discussion of web graphics as a way of properly introducing the capabilities and potential of web design; included CD-ROM contains file converters, plug-and-play sample web pages, templates, and more Pearson Indiana 1st edition 10x8½ pb & CD-ROM [1/96] for $19.77 New Riders Publng 2nd edition 10x8½ pb [2/97] out of print/used New Riders Publng 3rd edition 10x8 pb [1999] out of print/used New Riders Publng 4th edition 9¾x7¾ pb [2003] out of print/used |
 | "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of The Internet" [1996 bestseller] by Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [1999 edition] for $10.99 Simon & Schuster 8½x5½ pb [1/98] for $13.53 Simon & Schuster 9½x6½ pb [8/96] out of print/100+ used San Val library hardcover [1/98] out of print/used |
 | "Children and The Internet: A Zen Guide For Parents and Educators" [1996] by Brendan P. Kehoe [1970-2011] & Victoria Mixon book provides practical guidance for parents and educators, focusing on real-world issues and the tricky matter of figuring out how to use the internet as an educational tool in kindergarten through 12th grade; includes a trial version/demo copy of Mattel's long-obsolete Cyber Patrol software on CD-ROM 215-page P.T.R. Prentice Hall 9¼x6¾ pb [10/96] for $7.50 "Cyber Patrol" was the world's most widely-used internet filtering software; CAVEAT: the software's filtering was biased in many ways and in any case is long obsolete The Learning Company CD-ROM for Windows 3.1 & 95 and Macintosh [1998] out of prodn/scarce |
 | "Digerati: Encounters With The Cyber Elite" [1996] by science writer John Brockman
TEXERE Publng 8½x6 pb [3/98] out of print/used Hardwired 9½x6½ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used online etext available free at Edge.org website conversations with 33 of the most important architects and developers of today's cyberspace as recorded by John Brockman from August 1995 thru April 1996: Stewart Alsop, John Perry Barlow, Stewart Brand, David Bunnell, Doug Carlston, Denise Caruso, Steve Case, John C. Dvorak, Esther Dyson, Bill Gates, David Gelernter, Mike Godwin, W. Daniel Hillis, David R. Johnson, Brewster Kahle, Kevin Kelly, Jaron Lanier, Ted Leonsis, John Markoff, John McCrea, Scott McNealy, Jane Metcalfe, Kip Parent, Howard Rheingold, Louis Rossetto, Paul Saffo, Bob Stein, Cliff Stoll, Linda Stone, Lew Tucker, Sherry Turkle, Dave Winer, Richard Saul Wurman |
 | "The Cathedral and The Bazaar: Musings On Linux & Open Source By An Accidental Revolutionary" [1999] by Eric S. Raymond
O'Reilly Media 8½x5½ pb [1/2001] for $11.53 O'Reilly Media 9x5¾ hardcover [10/99] out of print/used author's official website |
 | Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace [1999] by Lawrence Lessig Basic Books 8x5½ pb [7/2000] out of print/50+ used 9½x6½ hardcover [11/99] out of print/used see also newer Version 2.0 [2006] below |
 | "The Value of A Good Idea: Developing and Protecting Intellectual Property In An Information Age" [2002] by Jeffrey A. Barker
Kindle Edition from Silver Lake Publng [5/2009] for $9.95 Silver Lake Publng 10x8 pb [4/2002] for $24.95 |
 | "Web Thinking: Connecting, Not Competing For Success" [2002] by Dr. Linda Seger Inner Ocean Publg 7½x5½ hardcover [6/2002] out of print/used |
 | "Who Controls The Internet?: Illusions of A Borderless World" [2006] by Jack Goldsmith & Tim Wu Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [2006 edition] for $7.14 Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb with New Preface [6/2008] for $10.84 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2006] for $74.00 |
 | "Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy" [2006] by David H. Holtzman Kindle Edition from Jossey-Bass [2006 edition] for $16.99 Jossey-Bass 9¼x6½ pb [10/2006] for $18.27 |
 | "Greetings In Jesus Name!: The Scambaiter Letters" [2006] by Michael Berry An expert in internet 'scam-baiting' relates his hilarious adventures in turning the tables on fake Nigerian bank presidents and terminal 'Christian' cancer victims Harbour Books 7½x5 pb [10/2006] for $12.54 |
 | "Untangling The Web: Sex, Porn, and Fantasy Obsession In The Internet Age" [2006] by Robert Weiss & Jennifer P. Schneider "A compassionate guide for anyone struggling with the devastating effects of pornography on intimacy, relationships, family, career, health, and self-respect." Alyson Books 8½x5½ pb [11/2006] out of print/many used |
 | "Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0" [2006] by Lawrence Lessig Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [2/2011] for $2.99 {sic} Basic Books 9¼x6 pb [12/2006] for $20.06 CreateSpace 10x7 pb [12/2009] out of print/used |
 | "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything" [orig 2006] by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams Kindle Edition from Portfolio Hardcover [4/2008] Expanded Edition for $13.93 Portfolio Expanded Edition 9x6 hardcover [4/2008] for $18.45 |
 | "Rule The Web: How To Do Anything and Everything On The Internet - Better, Faster, Easier" [2007] by Mark Frauenfelder
Kindle Edition from St. Martin's/Macmillan [2007 edition] for $7.99 St. Martin's Griffin 9¼x7½ pb [6/2007] for $21.25 |
 | "The Regulation of Cyberspace: Control In The Online Environment" [2007] by Andrew D. Murray Kindle Edition from Routledge-Cavendish [2007 edition] for $57.56 {sic} Routledge-Cavendish 9¼x6 pb [2/2007] for $71.95 Routledge-Cavendish 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2007] for $166.60 {sic} |
 | "The Cult of the Amateur" [2007] by Andrew Keen "How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are killing our culture, our economy, and our values." Kindle Edition from Crown Business/Random House [2007 edition] for $10.99 Doubleday 8¼x5½ pb [8/2008] for $12.23 Doubleday 7¾x5 pb [8/2008] out of print/used Bantam Dell Publng Group 8¼x5½ hardcover [6/2007] out of print/70+ used |
 | "The History of Wireless: How Creative Minds Produced Technology For The Masses" [2008] by Ira Brodsky Part I covers Volta, Faraday, Maxwell, Lodge & Hertz; Part IIA covers the telegraph, the telephone, Marconi, Fessenden, de Forest & Armstrong {not Tesla?}; Part IIB covers the birth of broadcast radio & TV, Sarnoff, Farnsworth & Zworykin; Part III is a comprehensive history of mobile radio, cellular & digital cellular. Telescope Books 8¾x6 pb [1/2008] for $17.95 |
 | "What's The Big Deal About Pornography? A Guide For The Internet Generation" [2008] by Jill C. Manning, PhD Thorough examination of the topic, albeit with an LDS/Mormon slant Kindle Edition from Shadow Mountain [10/2009] for $9.99 Shadow Mountain 7¾x5¼ pb [4/2008] for $13.55 |
 | "The Wikipedia Revolution: How A Bunch of Nobodies Created The World's Greatest Encyclopedia" [2009] by Andrew Lih, Foreword by Jimmy Wales
Kindle Edition from Hachette Book Group [3/2009] for $13.99 Hyperion 9¼x6 hardcover [3/2009] for $21.86 |
 | "The Department of Mad Scientists: How D.A.R.P.A. Is Remaking Our World, From The Internet To Artificial Limbs" [2009] by Michael Belfiore
Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Reference [10/2009] for $10.99 HarperPerennial 8x5¼ pb [11/2010] for $10.45 Smithsonia 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2009] out of print/40+ used |
 | "The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains" [2010] by Nicholas Carr W.W. Norton 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2010] for $15.75 |
 | "Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think?: The Net's Impact On Our Minds and Future" [2011] Edited by science writer John Brockman contributors include: Nicholas Carr, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jaron Lanier, Steven Pinker, Clay Shirky, Nassim N. Taleb, Frank Wilczek Kindle Edition from HarperCollins e-books [1/2011] for $3.99 Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [1/2011] for $12.18 Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [1/2011] for $12.15 |
 | "Hollywood On Strike!: An Industry At War In The Internet Age" [2011] by Jonathan Handel Kindle Edition from Hollywood Analytics [2/2011] for $7.99 CreateSpace 9x6 pb [2/2011] for $22.95 |
 | "In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives" [2011] by Steven Levy Simon & Schuster hardcover [4/2011] for $16.51 |
 | "The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You" [2011] by Eli Pariser Viking 8½x6 pb [5/2011] out of print/used Penguin Press 8x5½ hardcover [5/2011] for $14.91 |
 | "What You Really Need to Know About The Internet: From Gutenberg To Zuckerberg" [2011] by John Naughton
Quercus 9½x7¼ pb [9/2012] out of print/many used Quercus 8½x5½ pb [9/2011] out of print/40+ used |
"Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity,
and Irreversibly..." [1/2012] by Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Productivity/dp/0984725113/
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Productivity/dp/B00BP0JVOK/
 | "Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and The Battle For The Internet" [2012] by Charles Arthur Apple, Google, and Microsoft are radically different companies that fought a series of pitched battles for control of different parts of the digital landscape; the new edition looks at each of these battles in turn and analyses the very different cultures of the three companies and assesses exactly who are the victors on each front. Second Edition: Kindle Edition from Kogan Page [5/2014] for $19.99 Second Edition: Kogan Page 8½x5½ pb [5/2014] for $20.99 Kogan Page mass pb [4/2012] out of print/used |
"Tubes: A Journey To The Center of The Internet" [5/2012] by Andrew Blum
http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-Journey-Internet-Andrew-Blum/dp/0061994952/
"Digital Revolutions: Activism in the Internet Age" [5/2013] by Symon Hill
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Revolutions-Activism-Internet-Changing/dp/1780260768/
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Revolutions-Activism-Internet-Paperback/dp/B00FDV4M96/
"Digital State: How the Internet is Changing Everything" [6/2013] by Simon Pont
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-State-Internet-Changing-Everything/dp/0749468858/
 | "Virtual Unreality: Just Because The Internet Told You So, How Do You Know It's True?" [2014] by Charles Seife
Kindle Edition from Viking/Penguin [6/2014] for $10.99 Viking 8½x5¾ hardcover [6/2014] for $19.53 |
 | "From Gutenberg To Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation In Ihe Age of The Internet" [2014] by John Naughton updated and-or revised (assumed from publication 28 months after 2011 book above) Kindle Edition from Quercus/Hachette [1/2014] for $9.99 Quercus 8¼x5½ pb [1/2015] for $11.62 Quercus 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2014] for $19.67 |
 | "@War: The Rise of The Military-Internet Complex" [2014] by Shane Harris
Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [11/2014] for $12.99 Eamon Dolan 9x6 hardcover [11/2014] for $20.34 |
 | "Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime - From Global Epidemic To Your Front Door" [2014] by Brian Krebs
Kindle Edition from Sourcebooks [11/2014] for $9.99 Sourcebooks 8x6½ pb [5/2014] for $10.73 Sourcebooks 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2014] for $18.04 author's official website |
 | "Computer Games, Children, and The Internet: Technology, Educational Uses, and Effects On Cognitive Development" [2014] Edited by Lucas Mitchell
Nova Science Publng UK 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2014] for $151.88 {sic} Nova Science, Inc. hardcover [12/2014] out of print/used |
 | "Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties In The Digital Age" [2014] by Neil Richards Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [12/2014] for $13.19 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2015] for $27.58 |
 | "Terms of Service: Social Media and The Price of Constant Connection" [2015] by Jacob Silverman Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [3/2015] for $13.59 Harper 9x6 hardcover [3/2015] for $19.90 |
 | "Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles To Collect Your Data and Control Your World" [3/2015] by Bruce Schneier
Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton & Co. [3/2015] for $12.70 W.W. Norton & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2015] for $15.37 |
 | "The Internet Is NOT The Answer" [2015] by Andrew Keen Kindle Edition from Atlantic Monthly Press [1/2015] for $9.07 Grove Press 8½x5¾ pb [1/2016] for $13.74 Atlantic Monthly Press 9x7 hardcover [1/2015] for $16.12 |
 | "The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and The New Online Revolutionaries" [2015] by Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be over-thrown – perhaps both. As Western capital flooded into the new Russian Federation during the 1990s, digital networks sprouted from fledgling Internet service providers, connecting Russians with each other and with the outside world online. It was a time of turbulence, but also of optimism among the Russian intelli-gentsia. Then came Vladimir Putin . . . Kindle Edition from PublicAffairs [9/2015] for $14.62 PublicAffairs 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2015] for $15.39 |
 | "The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of D.A.R.P.A., America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency" [2015] by Annie Jacobsen Described as a 'definitive history of DARPA' (the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present by the author of New York Times bestsellers "Area 51" and "Operation Paperclip" Kindle Edition from Little, Brown/Hachette [9/2015] for $14.99 Little, Brown & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2015] for $21.01 |
 | "Broad Band: The Untold Story of The Women Who Made The Internet" [2018] by Claire L. Evans subjects include Grace Hopper, Elizabeth 'Jake' Feinler, and Stacy Horn Kindle Edition from Portfolio [3/2018] for $13.99 Portfolio 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2018] for $16.19 |
 | "Facebook For Dummies" [orig 2008, rev 2018] by Carolyn Abram, with Amy Karasavas
Kindle Edition from Wiley/For Dummies [7th edition 2/2018] for $13.00 Wiley/For Dummies 7th Edition 9¼x7¼ pb [3/2018] for $17.32 |
 | "LinkedIn For Dummies" [2018] by Joel Elad
Kindle Edition from Wiley/For Dummies [5th edition 3/2018] for $13.00 Wiley/For Dummies 5th edition 9x7¼ pb [4/2018] for $15.31 |
 | "Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts - Right Now" [2018] by visionary Jaron Lanier Kindle Edition from Henry Holt/Macmillan [5/2018] for $9.99 Henry Holt & Co. 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/2018] for $12.32 |
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"Custodians of The Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and The Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media" [2018] by Tarleton Gillespie
Kindle Edition from Yale Univ Press [6/2018] for $14.99 Yale Univ Press 9¼x6 hardcover [6/2018] for $19.85 |
 | "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy" [2018] by Siva Vaidhyanathan "An indictment of how 'social media' has fostered the deterioration of democratic culture around the world, from facilitating Russian meddling in support of Trump's election to the exploitation of the [Facebook] platform by murderous authoritarians in Burma and the Philippines" Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [5/2018] for $9.99 South Asia Edition 8¾x6 pb [6/2018] for $16.62 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2018] for $13.00 |
 | "Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization In American Politics" [2018] by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts The core of this provocative new book is the study of how the right-wing ecosystem works Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [9/2018] for $9.99 Oxford Univ Press pb [10/2018] for $27.95 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [10/2018] for $99.00 {sic} |
 | "Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect A President - What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know" [2018] by Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [9/2018] for $9.99 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/2018] for $20.97 |
 | "Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram For Senior Dummies" [2018] by social media expert Marsha Collier simple advice on using social media to connect with family and friends or to stay up to date on current events; friendly guide walks you through setting up and enjoying an account at the top three social media sites - Face-book, Twitter, Instagram - without using confusing tech jargon, and makes it easy to keep your account/s safe and secure with the latest privacy features Kindle Edition from For Dummies [11/2018] for $15.00 For Dummies 3rd Edition 9x7¼ pb [12/2018] for $17.99 |
 | "Because Internet: Understanding The New Rules of Language" [2019] New York Times Top Ten Bestseller by Gretchen McCulloch alterate subtitle: 'Understanding How Language Is Changing' UNRL: Kindle Edition from Riverhead Books [7/2019] for $12.99 UHLC: Harvill Secker UK 8¾x5¾ hardcover [10/2019] for $17.52 UNRL: Riverhead Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2019] for $17.99 author's official website |
Selected Fiction
"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Novel" [2014] by David Shafer
Selected by N.P.R., Slate, TIME Magazine, and Kirkus as one of the Best Books of 2014
 | Three young people - a girl, a crazed trust baby, and a phony motivational speaker - stumble upon the secret conflict between an international cabal of industrialists & media barons and an idealistic online underground over the privatization of 'all information'.
Kindle Edition from Mulholland Books/Hachette [8/2014] for $9.99 Mulholland Books 8¼x5½ pb [5/2015] for $6.95 Mulholland Books 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2014] for $9.09 author entry at Wikipedia book entry at Wikipedia |
Announced 6/2015: H.B.O. is developing a half-hour comedy series based on "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot", to be produced by Zev Borow
for Brad Pitt's Plan B company; probable IMDb credits {restricted}.
"After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley" [2017] by Rob Reid
 | The new Phluttr social network has ingested every fact and message ever sent to, from, and about 'her' innumerable users. Phluttr's capabilities astound, but is she a reckless experiment that could bend the entire planet to her will? A motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and engineers are trying to gain influence over her . . .
Kindle Edition from Del Rey/Random House [8/2017] for $13.99 Del Rey 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2017] for $19.25 |
Movies & Television on Internet History & Issues
Here will be mostly non-fiction films about various internet policy issues and history; the separate category of movies about computers & internet
(drama, sci-fi, etc.) was coded in Summer of 2015 as the Cyber Film Festival at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store.
"Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing" documentary film [1972]
Wonderful compilation of home-movie quality footage of internet pioneers produced by Steven King (not the famous one); directed & edited by Peter Chvany;
featuring F.J. Corbato [MIT], Donald W. Davies [NPL UK], Frank Heart, Robert E. 'Bob' Kahn [MIT, DARPA], J.C.R. Licklider [BBN, ARPA & MIT], George W. Mitchell (Federal Reserve Board), physicist John R. Pasta (NSF), Lawrence G. Roberts [ARPA, later Telenet], William R. 'Bert' Sutherland [BBN, ARPA]
& Richard W. Watson (SRI) not listed at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia watch full film [26:15] online at YouTube
"Playboy: Girls of The Internet" [Playboy Ent./Uni Distrbn Feb 1996]
 | Playboy Magazine jumped on the internet bandwagon quite early, with a cover story on 'Women of The Internet' in the April 1996 issue; the video release preceded in February 1996 {per IMDb}; the 55-minute X-rated video 'Girls of The Internet' features fifteen women: Rhonda Adams, Jennifer Behr {as Jenna Bare}, Paula Carvalho, Chandra Coughlin, Courtney, Gabriella Hall {as Gabriella Skye}, Tess Hennessey, Chasey Lain, Jacqueline Lovell, Pam Luu, Claudine Jennings, Heidi Mark, Alesha Oreskovich, Ashlie Rhey, and Janet Tracy {Keijser} Co-produced by Hugh M. Hefner; written & directed by Tammara Wells Playboy Home Video color VHS [1/99] out of prodn/used Image Ent. color VHS [1/99] out of prodn/scarce Playboy Home Video color VHS [2/96] out of prodn/used |
 | "The Internet for Beginners" [1998]
"A guide for everyone with or without computer skills" 42-minute Tapeworm Video color VHS [11/98] out of prodn/used |
"Modern Marvels : The Internet : Behind The Web" [History Channel © 2000]
 | First broadcast May 2001; also broadcast October 2002 (Season 9, Episode 48); narrated by Paul Horn; featuring Dr. Paul Baran, Tim Berners-Lee (of CERN), Dr. Vinton Cerf, Dr. Stephen Crocker, Frank Heart (of BB&N), Dr. Robert Kahn, Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe, Dr. Lawrence Roberts, Peter Salvus, and Raymond Tomlinson episode not listed at IMDb
A&E Home Video color VHS [2000?] out of prodn/scarce watch full program [47:16] online at YouTube |
"Traffic Control: The People's War On Internet Porn" [2007]
 | This documentqary describes the problem of internet porn - for adults, for children, for porn actors - with a non-offensive Xian slant, and advocates the Internet Community Port Act (aka Community Port 80 or CP80) which would isolate adult content away from mainstream channels; the last activity seems to be back in 2007 & 2008.
indep DVD [2007] out of prodn/used not listed on IMDb official movie site {last update 2011} watch 3/2007 official trailer [2:36] online at YouTube |
"The History of The Internet and Its Flexible Future" [I.E.E.E. Feb 2008]
 | The 90-minute commemorative keynote speech delivered by internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock at the 2007 I.E.E.E. GlobeCom convention was recorded on video and an abstract was published in I.E.E.E.'s journal in February 2008. abstract text at the I.E.E.E. website (requires signin or payment) DVD available at the I.E.E.E. Commmunications Society website 90-minute color DVD for $35 to members and for $50 to non-members |
"Download: The True Story of the Internet" TV series
[Discovery Channel 2008]
 | four Ύ-hour episodes, hosted by John Heilemann: "Browser Wars", "Search", "Bubble", and "People Power" series credits at IMDb Discovery Channel widescreen color DVD [2008] 2 disks - out of prodn/scarce watch each episode online at YouTube:
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"History of The Internet" short film [Germany 2009]
 | Directed & animated by Melih Bilgil of Mόnchen, Germany; voice-over by Steve Taylor; music by Mathias Grόbel not listed at IMDb official movie site watch full film [8:10] online at YouTube |
"60 Minutes: The Internet Is Infected" [CBS-TV March 2009]
 | Viruses, worms, and other toxic software lurk in the PCs of millions of Americans, threatening to steal our financial information and cripple our computers; the virus Conficker is one of the most dangerous computer threats ever, and by some estimates, 10 million computers have been hit by this virus alone 12-minute segment; Lesley Stahl reports; interviewees include Steve Trilling {VP at Symantec}, internet pioneer Vint Cerf {VP at Google}, Don Jackson {of SecureWorks} & network engineer Louie Pelaez
C.B.S. color DVD-R [4/2009] for $17.95 full credits at IMDb |
"We Live In Public" documentary feature [indep Aug 2009]
 | Ms. Timoner documented internet pioneer & visionary Josh Harris and his life for over a decade, an incredible & tumultuous life story that gives insight into the internet's revolutionary impact on human interaction. (Harris predicts that in the future the individual will disappear as humanity trades privacy for various electronic forms of connection & recognition.)
Co-produced, written & directed by Ondi Timoner; featuring Josh Harris and his brother Tom Harris; won Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival
IndiePix Films Collector's Edition widescreen color DVD [7/2011] 2 disks for $29.95 IndiePix Films widescreen color DVD [3/2010] for $24.95 full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia official movie site |
"The Virtual Revolution" [BBC2 June 2010]
    | Hosted by Dr. Aleks Krotoski; featuring Kudjo Agbevi, Chris Anderson (of Wired), Ross Anderson, John Perry Barlow (of the Grateful Dead band), John Battelle, web co-inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jeff Bezos (of Amazon), Dana Boyd (of Harvard University), Stewart Brand (of The Well), Nicholas Carr, web co-inventor Vinton G. Cerf, Shami Chakrabarti, U.S. Army LtCol Greg Conti, Chris Cox (of Facebook), Robin Dunbar (of Oxford University), Shawn Fanning (of Napster), Bob Finch, Martha Lane Fox (of travel site LastMinute.com), actor Stephen Fry, David Gallagher (of New York Times), Frank Gardner, Bill Gates (of Microsoft), Kenneth Geers, Seth Goldstein (of Attention Trust), Konstantin Goloskokov of Russia, Al Gore, Jr., neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield, Reed Hastings (of Netflix, Inc.), Austin Heap (of Haystack), Arianna Huffington, Chris Hughes (of Facebook), Chad Hurley (of YouTube), Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia, author Steven Johnson, Mitch Kapor (of Electronic Frontier Founda-tion), Andrew Keen, Lina Khatib, Einar Kvaran of New Mexico, Charlie Leadbeater, James Marcus (of Amazon), Marissa Mayer (then of Google), Paul Meijer (of Verisign), Leo Murray, Prof. David Nicholas, Ory Okolloh of Kenya, Rainer Ottis of Estonia, Jonah Peretti (of Huffington Post & Buzzfeed), Macon Phillips, Xio Qiang (of China Digital Times), David Runciman (of Cambridge University), Douglas Rushkoff, Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google), Daniel Schmitt (of Wikileaks), Prof. Nigel Shadbolt, Clay Shirky, Master Shortie, Lee Siegel, Biz Stone (of Twitter), Peter Andreas Thiel (of PayPal), Sherry Turkle (of M.I.T.), Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia), Evan Williams (of Twitter), Prof. Terry Winograd (of Stanford University), Steve Wozniak (of Apple Computer), Hu Yong (of Beijing University), Koh Young-Sam of Korea, blogger Wen Yunchao, and Mark Zuckerberg (of Facebook)
British DVD sold out (2014); DVD not available in USA; known as "Internet Revolution" to the Spanish market series credits at IMDb official B.B.C. series site series entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [0:30] online at YouTube Episode 1 "The Great Levelling?": watch online [58:59] at YouTube Episode 2 "Enemy of The State?": watch online [59:06] at YouTube Episode 3 "The Cost of Free": watch online [58:55] at YouTube Episode 4 "Homo Interneticus?": watch online [59:21] at YouTube |
"The Internet's Own Boy" [2014] DVD
http://www.amazon.com/Internets-Own-Boy-Aaron-Swartz/dp/B00P0DMZGY/
"Lo and Behold: Reveries of The Connected World"
[Magnolia Pictures Aug 2016]
 | 98-minute documentary film by Werner Herzog told in ten chapters on the origins of the 'connected world' and the internet and social networks and their future DVD/Blu-ray not yet available latest credits at IMDb official movie site movie entry at Wikipedia watch 1/2016 official trailer [2:15] at YouTube |
"Trumping Democracy: Real Money Fake News Your Data"
[streaming Nov 2017, DVD release Dec 2017]
 | "In the darkness of the web, democracy was trumped by data." Explosive documentary that follows the money in the 2016 election cycle to the elusive billionaire Robert Mercer, who bought Breitbart News and funded the effort while inserting Steve Bannon into the presidential campaign as its manager. Mercer-owned company Cambridge Analytica used data of millions of Americans – acquired from Facebook, Google, banks, credit companies, social security, and more – and tactics honed during the U.K.'s Brexit campaign to identify voters deemed 'most neurotic or worried', whom they believed could swing for Trump. In the days before the election, using the little-known Facebook feature called 'dark posts', Cambridge Analytica deployed highly manipulative & personalized messages seen only one time by the user before disappearing.
69-minute documentary film directed by Thomas Huchon Cinema Libre color DVD [12/2017] for $11.63 Amazon Instant Video [11/2017] rental $3.99, purchase $9.99 bare credits at IMDb official movie website watch 11/2017 official trailer [3:04] online at YouTube |
"Jexi" [C.B.S. Films/Lionsgate Oct 2019]
 | Office worker Phil breaks his smartphone and buys a new one, not realizing that the virtual assistant Jexi is self-aware; after various incidents, Phil finds a girlfriend and Jexi becomes jealous and decides to ruin Phil's life . . . Written & directed by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore; starring Adam Devine, Alexandra Shipp, Rose Byrne {voice of Jexi}, Ron Funches, Charlyne Yi, Michael Peρa, Wanda Sykes, Kid Cudi, Justin Hartley, Gavin Root, Blake Grunder, Richard Harder, Ray Reinhardt, Diana Jackson, Aaron Wilton, Kenny Lorenzetti, A.J. Kirsch, CJ Stuart, Jamie Taylor Ballesta, Natalie Barnet, September D'Angelo, Dustin Forrester, Harry Ellis Johnson, Dawayne Jordan, John Lobato, Sean Michael McGrory, Mahal Montoya, Duane Ram, Kelly Richardson, Vanessa Sheri, Michelle Elise Shock
LionsGate color Blu-ray [1/2020] for $19.99 LionsGate color DVD [1/2020] for $13.99 full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailers online at YouTube: 8/2019 redband trailer [2:48] 9/2019 greenband trailer [2:23] |
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