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appliances (continued )
worries with, 106–7, 123–24, 150;
smarter, 107; tethered, 3, 4, 5, 8–9,
59, 101–3, 106, 107. See also information
appliances
application layer, 67–69
application programming interface (API),
124, 184–85, 215
application space, 17
architecture, as law, 108
ARPANET, 256–57n32
Association for Computing Machinery,
38
AT&T: centralized control structure
of, 40; competition of, 24; connect
charges of, 23; and iPhone, 2, 182;
long-distance network of, 40; and
modems, 22–23, 25–26; as monopoly,
21, 81, 182; and online services, 23–
25; and outside innovations, 21–22,
82, 89, 121, 182; regulation of, 21, 81,
183, 221; telephone network controlled
by, 21–24; and third-party
hardware, 81; tone frequency of, 40
ATMs (automated teller machines), 20
automatons, creation of, 211
Avvo, 320n97
Azureus, 121
bait and switch, 183, 184
Bank of America, 203–4
bank vaults, 32
Barlow, John Perry, 161
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation),
121
BBS (bulletin board system) software,
25–26
Beesley, Angela, 143
Benkler, Yochai, 91–92, 93, 98, 99, 146,
160, 192, 193, 206, 207, 228
Benner, Mary, 24
Berkman Center. See Harvard University,
Berkman Center
Berners-Lee, Tim, 95
Bessen, James, 190
Bidder’s Edge, 224, 225
biometric readers, 228
BitTorrent, 90, 121, 287n113
BlackBerries, 57, 101, 118, 176
Black Hat Europe hacker convention
(2006), 56–57
blogs: from automated robots, 207–8;
captcha boxes of, 207–8; censorship
of, 113; Libertarian model in, 131;
power of, 88, 95; spread of, 148, 151;
of teens, 231
Blossom, 195–96
Bomis search engine, 133, 289n19
bookmarks, 58
books.google.com (Web site), 224–25,
242
Bork, Robert, 202
Bostic, Keith, 38
Boston College, data loss by, 204
botnets, 45–47
Boyle, James, 113
Bricklin, Dan, 2
Brin, David, 209
broadband: PC accessibility via, 4; remote
updates of, 53; tragedies of the commons
in, 158
Brother, “smart” typewriters, 19, 20, 34
browsers, development of, 29
Burning Man festival, 34
business, “long tail” of, 214
“Bus Uncle” of Hong Kong, 211
cable television, 181–82, 183
Camp, Jean, 160
Cap’n Crunch whistle, 40, 42
captcha boxes, 207–8, 227
cars. See motor vehicles
Carter, Tom, 22
Carterfone, 22, 25, 26, 81, 121, 182
CB simulator, 23
censorship, 105, 113–17; amplification
of, 114–17; circumventing, 180; by
commercial filtering programs, 114–