Inventing The Internet by Janet Abbate
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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- 1999
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