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The Origins of the Internet

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Where Wizards Stay Up Late

The Origins of the Internet

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Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty 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 1960's, 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 readers 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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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
304

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Where wizards stay up late: the origins of the Internet
2003, Pocket
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
Dec 15, 2000, Simon & Schuster Books
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
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Where wizards stay up late: the origins of the Internet
1996, Simon & Schuster
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1996, Simon & Schuster
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
004.6/7
Library of Congress
TK5105.875.I57 H338 1996

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
304 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
304

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL981918M
ISBN 10
0684812010
LCCN
96019533
LibraryThing
52979
Goodreads
1301689

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL3270089W

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Bob Taylor usually drove to work, thirty minutes through the rolling countryside northeast of Washington, over the Potomac River to the Pentagon.
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