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Author Kushner, David, 1968- author.

Title The players ball : a genius, a con man, and the secret history of the Internet's rise / David Kushner.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
©2019

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  338.761 KUSHNER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  004.678 KUS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  384.3 KUS    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  384.3 KUSHNER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  384.3097 KUSHNER    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  384.3 KUSHNER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  338.761 KUSHNER    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  384.3 KUSHNER    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description 256 pages ; 22 cm
Contents The world wide west -- The genius -- The con man -- Matched -- Screwed -- The erotic technological impulse -- The art of war -- Rancho -- The dogpatch -- The crazy aunt in the attic -- The players ball -- Come and get it -- Sex, drugs, and Camarones -- Happy birthday -- The Samurai -- Across the border.
Summary "In 1994, ... entrepreneur Gary Kremen used a $2,500 loan to create the first online dating service, Match.com. Only 5 percent of Americans were using the Internet at the time, and even fewer were looking online for love. He quickly bought the Sex.com domain too, betting the combination of love and sex would help propel the Internet into the mainstream. Imagine Kremen's surprise when he learned that someone named Stephen Michael Cohen had stolen the rights to Sex.com and was already making millions that Kremen would never see. Thus follows the wild true story of Kremen's and Cohen's decade-long battle for control"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Internet industry -- United States -- History.
Internet domain names.
Dating services -- United States.
Online dating -- United States.
Swindlers and swindling -- United States.
Dating services. (OCoLC)fst01199880
Internet domain names. (OCoLC)fst00977236
Internet industry. (OCoLC)fst00977265
Online dating. (OCoLC)fst01045952
Swindlers and swindling. (OCoLC)fst01140414
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History.
ISBN 9781501122149 (hardcover)
1501122142 (hardcover)
9781501122156 (trade paperback)
1501122150 (trade paperback)
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