David Winder, commonly known as Davey Winder, is an
English
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IT and
Information Security
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freelance consultant, writer and journalist. He was the 'IT Security Journalist of the Year (UK)' three times, in 2006, 2008 and 2010.
Biography
After viral
encephalitis
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left him severely disabled, he first got a computer to use video games to improve the coordination in the remaining arm in which he had the power of movement. He then used a word processor to learn how to read and write again. After experiments with
Prestel
Prestel was the Brand#Brand names and trademark, brand name of a videotex service launched in the UK in 1979 by BT Group#Post Office Telecommunications, Post Office Telecommunications, a division of the British Post Office Limited#History, Po ...
, he found an early British online community,
CIX, in the late 1980s, before direct connections to the internet were cheaply available outside academia, and this provided him with a new social and business life. Winder was contacted through CIX email over the internet by technological culture writer
Howard Rheingold
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B ...
, a habitué of
The Well
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, another early online community-based in the
United States
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, and eventually the two met in person at Winder's home; the meeting is described in Rheingold's book, ''
The Virtual Community
''The Virtual Community'' is a 1993 book about virtual communities by Howard Rheingold, a member of the early network system The WELL. A second edition, with a new concluding chapter, was published in 2000 by MIT Press.
The book's discussion ...
''.
A prolific author himself, Winder has had more than 20 books published. The most recent, Being Virtual, in conjunction with the
Science Museum
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, in London which explores the realm of virtual identity and is part auto-biographical in nature. Winder is now fully recovered and no longer needs a wheelchair.
Winder has contributed regularly to newspapers and magazines including ''
Computer Weekly
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'', ''
The Guardian
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'', ''
The Times
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'', ''
.net
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'', ''
PC Pro
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'', and ''
Forbes.com
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''.
Publications
"All you need to know about using the net."Future Publishing
Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
1985–2012
The company was founded by Chris Anderson a ...
, 1994.
"All you need to know about business on-line."Future Publishing, 1995.
"Inside the Internet: getting the most from the Net."Future Publishing, 1995.
"Sex and the Internet."Future Publishing, 1996.
"Being virtual: who you really are online."Wiley
Wiley may refer to:
Locations
*Wiley, Colorado, a U.S. town
*Wiley, Georgia, an U.S. unincorporated community
* Wiley, Pleasants County, West Virginia, U.S.
* Wiley-Kaserne, a district of the city of Neu-Ulm, Germany
People
*Wiley (musician), ...
, 2008
References
External links
Personal website
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Living people
British Internet celebrities
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century British journalists
21st-century British journalists