- Paperback: 274 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; New Ed edition (14 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262511150
- ISBN-13: 978-0262511155
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 2 x 22.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 874,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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History is written by winners, but Bill Gates isn't talking yet. Those interested in how this weird, wonderful World Wide Web--and its infrastructure--came to be should turn to historian Janet Abbate's look at 40 years of innovation in Inventing the Internet.
Peeking behind the curtain to show the personalities and larger forces guiding the development of the Net, from its dawn as a robust military communications network designed to survive multiple attacks, to today's commercial Web explosion, Abbate succeeds in demystifying this all- pervasive technology and its creators.
Abbate's survey covers everything from David Baran's work with the RAND corporation, to the development of packet-switching theory, to CERN's Tim Berners-Lee and his hypertext networking system. She also factors in influences that caused the Net to evolve--the cold war, changing research priorities and the hacker subculture--that pushed existing technologies into new forms, each more closely resembling today's fast, global communications system.
The research is impeccable, the writing is lively and the analysis is insightful. (See especially the discussion about the "surprise hit" of ARPANET, a minor function called e-mail.) Abbate clearly knows her subject and her audience; Inventing the Internet encapsulates a milestone of modern history. --Rob Lightner --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"[M]ay be the finest extended work on Internethistory and development to date... useful for anyone studyinginformation technology." Library Journal "Thoroughly wonderful." David Warsh, Boston Globe "This sophisticated history is the best account so far published ofthe unpredictable and turbulent evolution of the Internet. With itsbroad international context, the book will be of value to makers andusers of the global communications network, as well as to science andtechnology policy makers." Martin Campbell-Kelly , Reader in Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Great Stocking Stuffer for the Techies on Your List
16 Dec 1999
Format:Hardcover
For how long have you been aware of the web? Five years? Six? Didn't it seem as though we woke up one morning and there it was? Not so, as you will find out when you read this fascinating account of the way in which Internet technology took on a life of its own and morphed into the gigantic marketplace/library/chatroom that we think of today.
For example, did you know that the techniques used in the Internet were born out of Cold War paranoia? Or that email was an afterthought to the original system that unexpectedly became the most popular application of the network? Or that in the early 1980s, the military agency running the Internet was so afraid of hackers breaking into the system ("unauthorized penetrations," as one army major put it) that they split the network in two, one for the military and one for the civilians? Read the book for the details on these and other intriguing techno-tidbits.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Will high-tech history repeat itself?
8 Feb 2000
Format:Hardcover
If we don't know where we've been, how will we know where we're going? It's somehow reassuring to learn that a technology which seems to be so new and to change at lightning speed actually has a history spanning several decades. This book is intelligently written; it's not for the reader who is looking merely for fluff and sound bites. I've recommend it to many friends in a variety of fields since internet technology, and the decisions that have been made about it, affect us all in one way or another.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
important background for the current craze
21 Nov 1999
Format:Hardcover
*inventing the internet* is an impressively sound treatment of a 'hot' topic, and abbate manages to provide thorough anaylsis and original research without giving into the hype. the book meets critical scholarly standards in history of technology, but is also accessible to the average informed reader.
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