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Where wizards stay up late : the origins of the Internet

Author: Katie Hafner; Matthew Lyon
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1996.
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In the late 1960s, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency funded at project to create computer communication among its university-based researchers. The experiment was inspired by J.C.R. Licklider, a brilliant scientist from MIT who saw the potential of computers as communications devices. This is the story of the small group of researchers and engineers who laid the foundation for the Internet.  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hafner, Katie.
Where wizards stay up late.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996
(OCoLC)604851903
Online version:
Hafner, Katie.
Where wizards stay up late.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996
(OCoLC)608597110
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Katie Hafner; Matthew Lyon
ISBN: 0684812010 9780684812014 9780756792213 0756792215
OCLC Number: 34633443
Description: 304 p.. [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Fastest million dollars --
Block here, some stones there --
Third university --
Head down in the bits --
Do it to it Truett --
Hacking away and hollering --
E-Mail --
Rocket on our hands.
Responsibility: Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon.

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In the late 1960s, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency funded at project to create computer communication among its university-based researchers. The experiment was inspired by J.C.R. Licklider, a brilliant scientist from MIT who saw the potential of computers as communications devices. This is the story of the small group of researchers and engineers who laid the foundation for the Internet. In 1969, Arpa awarded the contract for the most integral part of this network--the Interface Message Processor (IMP) switch--to Bolt Beranek and Newman, a small Cambridge, Mass., company. Out of their efforts a nationwide network called the ARPANET grew from four initial sites, eventually merging in 1990 with the Internet it had spawned.

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