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Where wizards stay up late, the origins of the Internet, Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon

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Where wizards stay up late, the origins of the Internet, Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index

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platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Where wizards stay up late

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

34633443

Responsibility statement

Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon

Sub title

the origins of the Internet

Summary

In the late 1960s, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency funded at project to create computer communication among its university-based researchers. The experiment was inspired by J.C.R. Licklider, a brilliant scientist from MIT who saw the potential of computers as communications devices. This is the story of the small group of researchers and engineers who laid the foundation for the Internet. In 1969, Arpa awarded the contract for the most integral part of this network--the Interface Message Processor (IMP) switch--to Bolt Beranek and Newman, a small Cambridge, Mass., company. Out of their efforts a nationwide network called the ARPANET grew from four initial sites, eventually merging in 1990 with the Internet it had spawned

Table Of Contents

Fastest million dollars -- Block here, some stones there -- Third university -- Head down in the bits -- Do it to it Truett -- Hacking away and hollering -- E-Mail -- Rocket on our hands

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