From Telegraph to Terabits -- In the Beginning -- The Wire Telegraph -- Printing Telegraphs and the Teletypewriter -- The Telephone -- Telephone Switching -- Automatic Telephone Switching -- Voice Telecommunication Without Wires -- ATandT and Western Union Separate -- Wire Line Carrier -- Telecommunications Regulation -- Semiconductors Arrive -- Advances in Switching -- Coaxial Cables -- Microwave Radio Arrives -- First Transatlantic Submarine Telephone Cable -- The Digital Transmission Era Begins -- Satellites Relay Communications -- Community Antenna Television (CATV) -- Communications Through Glass Fibers -- The Breakup of Ma Bell -- Advances in Fiber Optic Technology -- New Network Technology -- Telecommunications Act of 1996 -- The Computer and the Internet -- A Brief History -- Computer Miniaturization -- Microprocessor Size -- Microprocessor Speed -- From Megabytes to Gigabytes and Beyond -- The Millennim Bug -- The Internet -- Cyberspace -- Web Browsers -- Marketing on the Internet -- Hardware -- Software -- Internet Service Providers -- Retail Services -- Equity Trading -- Content -- Electronic Transactions -- Education -- Internet Access -- On-Ramp Congestion -- Who Uses the Information Superhighway? -- A Brief History -- Types of Communications Services -- Interactive Services -- Distribution Services -- The Internet -- Business and the Internet -- Computer-Telephony Integration -- Telecommuting -- The Virtual Office -- Video Applications -- Distance Learning -- Wired Campuses -- The Virtual College
