Title: Inventing the Internet
First published: July 31, 2000
Description: In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate focuses on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. She unfolds an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users.
Subjects: Internet, History, Internet, social aspects, Computer networks, Computer engineering, Communications software, Information Storage and Retrieval, Computers, Histoire, Web, General, Networking, Intranets & Extranets, Entwicklung, Geschichte, Réseaux d'ordinateurs, Atarazanas
LC classification: TK5105.875.I57 A23 1999