Janet Abbate
American historian of technology and computing, author of Inventing the Internet (2000) and Recoding Gender (2012), known for work on the history of the Internet, software, and gender in computing.
Books
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1. Inventing The Internet
A concise, readable history that traces how early packet-switched research networks and ARPANET evolved through a series of technical choices, institutional negotiations, and social processes into the global, commercial Internet; it emphasizes the roles of engineers, government agencies, universities, and standards bodies in shaping protocols like TCP/IP and the network’s architecture, arguing that the Internet’s emergence was the result of contingent decisions, politics, and collaboration rather than technological inevitability.
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