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Inventing the Internet / Janet Abbate.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abbate, Janet.
- Series:
- Inside technology.
- Inside technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet--History.
- Internet.
- Wide area networks (Computer networks).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 264 p. : ill., maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 - White Heat and Cold War: The Origins and Meanings of Packet Switching
- 2 - Building the ARPANET: Challenges and Strategies
- 3 - "The Most Neglected Element": Users Transform the ARPANET
- 4 - From ARPANET to Internet
- 5 - The Internet in the International Standards Arena
- 6 - Popularizing the Internet
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-09998-1
- 9786612099984
- 0-262-26670-9
- 0-585-07797-5
- OCLC:
- 44962566
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