Network Geeks How They Built the Internet /

• Main Author: Carpenter, Brian E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Copernicus, 2013.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Popular works.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.; Popular Science, general.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

The impact on modern society made by the Internet is immeasurable. Yet some questioned “why anyone would want such a thing” when the idea was first introduced. Part history, part memoir and part cultural study, Network Geeks charts the creation of the Internet and the establishment of the Internet E...

Table of Contents:

• Hey Folks!
• Before My Time
• Where Do Geeks Come From?
• Going Up
• In Control
• Two Ivory Towers
• Diversity
• Economy Class
• Parallel Universes
• The Years of Miraculous Growth
• Going Under.