Inventing the Internet / Janet Abbate.

Author
Abbate, Janet [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, ©1999.
Description
viii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPIA) TK5105.875.I57 A23 1999 Browse related items Request

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    Series
    Inside technology [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Abate sees the key to the internet's rapid and seemingly chaotic growth as the result of a decentralized, user-driven environment. She traces the development of networked resources from Cold War think tanks and the ARPANET to the present successful free-form applications.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-258) and index.
    Contents
    • White heat and cold war : the origins and meanings of packet
    • Building the ARPANET : challenges and strategies
    • "The most neglected element" : users transform the ARPANET
    • From ARPANET to Internet
    • The Internet in the international standards arena
    • Popularizing the Internet.
    ISBN
    • 0262011727 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780262011723 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0262511150
    • 9780262511155
    • 0585077975
    • 9780585077970
    LCCN
    98047647
    OCLC
    40124875
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