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Inventing the Internet / Janet Abbate.
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Abbate, Janet
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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
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Internet
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History
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Computers
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Electronic digital computers
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Inside technology
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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.
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ISBN
0262011727 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9780262011723 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0262511150
9780262511155
0585077975
9780585077970
LCCN
98047647
OCLC
40124875
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