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Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate - ISBN: 9780262511155
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Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In "Inventing the Internet," Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allow…

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    264 pages

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    24 July 2000

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Summary

This work recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop. The main focus is on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet’s design and use. The story starts with the early networking breakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department’s creation of the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaotic growth.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262511155
ISBN-10:0262511150
Author:Janet Abbate
Publisher:MIT Press (MA)
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:264
Release Date:24 July 2000
Weight:386g
Dimensions:15mm x 151mm x 227mm
Series:Inside Technology (Paperback)
Audience Age:18
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Thoroughly wonderful.

Thoroughly wonderful.

-David Warsh, Boston Globe [M]ay be the finest extended work on Internet history and development to date…. useful for anyone studying information technology.

-Library Journal

About The Author

Janet Abbate

Janet Abbate is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the author of Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999).

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