Inventing the Internet

Inventing the Internet
By:"Janet Abbate"
Published on 2000 by MIT Press

Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental networkserving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computersworldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies thatallowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factorsthat influenced the Internets design and use. The story she unfolds is an often twisting tale ofcollaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and militaryagencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunicationscompanies, standards organizations, and network users.The story starts with the early networkingbreakthroughs formulated in Cold War think tanks and realized in the Defense Department's creationof the ARPANET. It ends with the emergence of the Internet and its rapid and seemingly chaoticgrowth. Abbate looks at how academic and military influences and attitudes shaped both networks; howthe usual lines between producer and user of a technology were crossed with interesting and uniqueresults; and how later users invented their own very successful applications, such as electronicmail and the World Wide Web. She concludes that such applications continue the trend ofdecentralized, user-driven development that has characterized the Internet's entire history and thatthe key to the Internet's success has been a commitment to flexibility and diversity, both intechnical design and in organizational culture.

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Book page count 264

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Category "Computers"

Book rate3.5

Book page count 264

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