Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet

Amazon Customer said How the Internet was born - an amazing story.. I have been meaning to purchase this book for years. It tells the story of how the Arpanet was formed, the Arpanet's design being essentially the same as the Internet's except that the former was intended for connecting academic and federal government institutions rather than commercial institutions and private citizens. It is amazing how such a small group of brilliant scientists and engineers worked so closely across institutions and the country to not only virtually overnight conceptualize but th. Great Read The book Where Wizards stay up late: the Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon is, in my opinion, an eight out of ten. The book provides a deep, comprehensive story on how and why the Internet was created. It seems as though the authors were with the original creators of the Internet while this amazing process unfolded. I subtracted two out of ten points for a single but important reason. While reading, it is extremely easy to get lost in the complex computing and networking terms. "Interesting read, even for non-geeks" according to J. Hutchin. What would seem like a dull read except for nerds turns out to be a really well-written and interesting history of the beginnings of the internet. I loved finding out the reasons behind the use of the @ in email addresses and why internet-related things have the names they do. It's an eye-opening look at a time when the government began to understand the importance of a worldwide computer network and looked to private industry and academia to provide the expertise.

Today, 20 million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Twenty-five years ago, it didn't exist. In the 1960s, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Taking listeners behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices