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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 i...