Full name: Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet

Author: Stephen Segaller Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781575000886 9781575001067 1575000881 1575001063

Nerds 2.0.1, the first detailed history of computer networking, begins in the 1960s with the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite and the efforts of one Pentagon bureaucrat, Bob Taylor, to save money. By building a network of computers, he believed the government could avoid buying so many new ones for academic research. From these modest Cold War beginnings a global networking industry has flourished, creating virtual communities, online shopping, the ubiquitous e-mail, and immense fortunes. Stephen Segaller's timely book draws on interviews with more than seventy of the pioneers who have used their technological genius and business skills to make incompatible systems work together, to make networking user-friendly, and to create a new global communications medium that rivals the telephone system or television in its scope and reach.Nerds 2.0.1 tells the dramatic, often comical story of how the world's computers have come to be wired together over the last thirty years. This paperback reprint contains new material to update the picture of this still-evolving saga. Similar books: Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner Tubes by Andrew Blum What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff The Innovators by Walter Isaacson The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder A computer called LEO by Georgina Ferry Engines of the Mind by Joel N. Shurkin The Chip by T. R. Reid ENIAC by Scott McCartney Click by Bill Tancer Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik The Master Switch by Tim Wu Accidental empires by Robert X. Cringely Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime