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An entertaining and accessible account of the creation of the Internet
Written from first-hand experience of working on the development of the Internet in Europe
Explains the science and technology in simple and easy-to-understand language
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The impact on modern society made by the Internet is immeasurable. Yet some questioned “why anyone would want such a thing” when the idea was first introduced.
Part history, part memoir and part cultural study, Network Geeks charts the creation of the Internet and the establishment of the Internet Engineering Task Force, from the viewpoint of a self-proclaimed geek who witnessed these developments first-hand. With boundless enthusiasm and abundant humour, Brian Carpenter leads the reader on a journey from post-war Britain to post-millennium New Zealand, describing how the Internet grew into today’s ubiquitous, global network, including the genesis of the World-Wide Web in the hotbeds of a particle collider at CERN. Illuminating the science and technology behind the apparent “magic trick” of the Internet, Network Geeks opens a window into the initially bewildering world of the Internet engineering geek. After reading this book, you may wish to join this world yourself.
Reviews
This is a geek page-turner! I learned much about the European side of the Internet's history that I did not know in detail and a lot about Brian himself, too. I don't know how he remembered so much in detail!
Vint Cerf
Internet Pioneer
Authors and Affiliations
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Auckland, New Zealand
Brian E. Carpenter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Network Geeks
Book Subtitle: How They Built the Internet
Authors: Brian E. Carpenter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5025-1
Publisher: Copernicus London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5024-4Published: 23 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-5025-1Published: 10 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 161
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Computing, Popular Science, general, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)