Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology) (Taschenbuch)

Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology) (Taschenbuch)
von Janet Abbate

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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 inInventing 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 the influences that caused the Net to evolve such as the Cold War, changing research priorities, and the hacker subculture that pushed existing technologies into new forms, each more and more like today's fast, global communications system.

The research is impeccable, the writing is lively, and the analysis is insightful. (See especially the discussion of the "surprise hit" of ARPANET, a minor function known as e-mail.) Abbate clearly knows her subject and her audience, andInventing the Internetencapsulates a milestone of modern history.--Rob Lightner-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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 inInventing 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'sTim Berners-Leeand 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 Internetencapsulates a milestone of modern history. --Rob Lightner-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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