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Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. ISBN: 0684812010.
The story of the small group of researchers and engineers whose invention, daring in its day, became the foundation for the Internet.

 
  Stephen Segaller, Nerds: A Brief History of the Internet, New York: TV Books, 1998. ISBN: 1575001063.
A detailed history of computer, networking, this book tells of how we have come to be wired together by the Internet and the World Web Web. See also a video about the history of the Internet, Nerds 2.0.1.: A Brief History of the Internet.
 
  Arthur Norberg and Judy O'Neil, Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, John's Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0801851521.
Examines the US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency during its heyday, and the impact it had on developments in computer science and engineering.
 
  Peter H. Salus, Casting the Net: From ARPANET to Internet and Beyond, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. ISBN: 0201876744.
An important and valuable historic look at the evolution of packet switching and its application in the ARPANET, its successor, the Internet and the combination of these networks with computer-mediated application over a period of about 25 years.
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