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Bibliography - The Internet Textbooks
| General References | History
of the Computer | Precomputing | Microcomputing |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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