In writting this digital blog I have actually have been couple to read some physically books on the history of the internet and Telecom industry.
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The best book on the history of AT&T and the US Telcom industry. The book goes on to great depth on the history of the communication empires of telephone, radio, television, and now the internet. Not a light reading book, but if you like to know how many of the giant communication companies got their start, this is the book. How did AT&T go from one of many independent phone companies to the only one is the US? How did Bell lab discover the transistor unix and help the arms race?
The $750 billion telecom bubble of the 1990's and 2000's was bigger then the dot.com bubble. It invovled the WorldCom, Global Crossing, NorthPoint Communications, and others. WorldCom and Global Crossing, was later found practicing illegal accounting practices to pump up profits for Wall Street. WorldCom's and Global Crossingstock price fell drastically when this information went public, and it eventually filed the third-largest and fourth corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history. the crash put America back in the broadband race for years to come.
This book details the struggles that deaf people have trying to find a way to communicate. Since the invention of the telephone, communication technology has been leaving the hearing impaired behind. The book tells the story of the battle between AT&T, the government and a small group of people who were striving to find a way to communicate with each other and with the hearing world. It describes the use of the first computer, computer modems and wireless mores code to form the first TTY systems-- Teletypewriter. It is ironic that Alexander Graham Bell was attempting to find a way to assist his own wife that was deaf when he developed the phone by chance, yet his invention became the bane of the deaf peoples' existence around the world.
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