Today everybody is talking of the dotcoms and e-commerce and so on. One is able to see and order products and services just sitting across the computer screen in the house or office. One is also able get latest music and video, chat with knowns and unknowns, send electronic mail, get the on-line news. These are the wonders that are attributable to the revolution called Internet. The world is now linked by the web which in simple terms is nothing but the fact that one single computer can be linked with any of the computers that is linked to this mesh of the internet and one can get the information needed in seconds.
Internet is is one of the largest revolutions in the history of mankind.
However, did you ever know that the roots of the internet can be traced as back as year 2000, when the then Soviet Union launched Sputnik into the orbit. The book by John Naughton traces the origins of Internet to make you aware of its birth and the stages of evolution of the internet. The book is a work that attempts to record milestones in the development of the internet as it is availble for applications to all of us. The net has changed our lives distinctly, but most of us know very little about what is behind the origins of the internet, developments, future and the people behind this revolution. This work is a commendable effort in getting the internet to the common man in trying to explain the need felt for creating such a thing, the steps in the evolution of the same, the concepts as the internet is today as well as implications of this revolution on the mankind and the future.