Inventing the Internet / / Janet Abbate

• Autore: Abbate Janet
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 264 p. : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 004.67/8/09
• Soggetto topico: Internet - History; Wide area networks (Computer networks)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 - White Heat and Cold War: The Origins and Meanings of Packet Switching -- 2 - Building the ARPANET: Challenges and Strategies -- 3 - "The Most Neglected Element": Users Transform the ARPANET -- 4 - From ARPANET to Internet -- 5 - The Internet in the International Standards Arena -- 6 - Popularizing the Internet -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.
• Titolo autorizzato: Inventing the Internet
• ISBN: 1-282-09998-1; 9786612099984; 0-262-26670-9; 0-585-07797-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910956131803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Inside technology.