
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
The Origins of the Internet
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Mark Douglas Nelson
Twenty-five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, 20 million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone.
In the 1960s, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking listeners behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.
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Birth of the Internet
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What other book might you compare Where Wizards Stay Up Late to and why?
The also excellent 'A History of the Internet and the Digital Future' by Johnny Ryan covers similar material, but has a much wider focus, whereas Wizards focuses in much more depth on the early period specifically.Any additional comments?
The definitive book on the creation and early history of the Internet.A must read!!!
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