Inventing the Internet / Janet Abbate.
Inventing the Internet / Janet Abbate.
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Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, c1999.
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T0372688
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English
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viii, 264 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. White Heat and Cold War: The Origins and Meanings of Packet Switching -- 2. Building the ARPANET: Challenges and Strategies -- 3. "The Most Neglected Element": Users Transform the ARPANET -- 4. From ARPANET to Internet -- 5. The Internet in the International Standards Arena -- 6. Popularizing the...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, c1999.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c1999.
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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, telecom...
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Inventing the Internet / Janet Abbate.
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Inside technology.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-258) and index.
Transferred from N004.67809/2.
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Also available online via the World Wide Web, made available by netLibrary.
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T0372688
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74VvNam04b3l
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ISBN
0262011727 (hardcover: alk. paper)
9780262011723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262011727 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262011723 :
0262011727 :
9780585077970 (electronic bk.) :
0585077975 (electronic bk.) :
9780262011723 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0262011727 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780262511155 (pbk.)
0262511150 (pbk.)
9780262011723 (hardcover: alk. paper)
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004.67809
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991012925559702626
