Volume 13, No. 2
April 2001
The World Wide Web and the Transformation of Internet Doman Names
IEEE 2001 Conference on History of Telecommunications
Book Review:
The Sociology of Invention: A review of Silicon Sky
News of the Field:
Marconi Collection
Scientific and Technical Information Systems Historical Meeting
Telecomm Museum and Website, SHOT website
Superman and the Case of the Disappearing Public Telephone
Cover: An Orbcomm team assembling satellites. Orbital Sciences Corporation continues in operation from its roots as an entrepreneurial start-up in the mid-1980s. Its CEO, David Thompson, wanted to show that commercial/entrepreneurial space ventures could be more efficient than NASA. His initial products were “rockets” which he sold to the Department of Defense & NASA. Read the story. Image accessed at <www.orbital .com/News/Images/Satellites/> and used with permission.