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Inventing the Internet
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Inventing the Internet

Janet Abbate
MIT Press, 2000

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Recommendation

Janet Abbate exhaustively researched her scholarly history of the Internet and presents it with the detail and tone you would expect from a historian, which she is. Therefore, don’t come looking for a breezy, "gee whiz" approach. This is not a promotional pat on the back to the companies that helped popularize the Internet, nor does it glorify dot-coms or any of their fearless leaders. In fact, Abbate devotes the first 75% of her book to the precursor to the public Internet - the ARPANET system used by scientists, researchers and the U.S. military. We recommend this book to all readers who want to know how the Internet really came into existence and how it evolved from a private, secret, scientific resource into today’s vast realm of public information, auctions, virtual bookstores, e-mail and even getAbstract.com

Take-Aways

  • Computers were originally used solely as calculation devices.
  • By the 1990s, computers had become communications devices.
  • The predecessor to the Internet was the ARPANET, created by the U.S. Department of Defense.

About the Author

Janet Abbate  is a lecturer in the department of history at the University of Maryland, in College Park, Maryland.

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