Where wizards stay up late
Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.
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- People interested in the history of the internet may enjoy the book "Where wizards stay up late". I'm sure there are other good books on it too (perhaps others can recommend below), but that's the one I read and enjoyed.
- tangentially, if you like that genre one of my favourite books in it is "where wizards stay up late", about the development of the internet.
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, (Katie Hafner, 1998)
- Richard Hamming's book on AT&T Bell Labs R&D culture in inventing and solving many of the important problems [1].
Another is Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner on the early days of the Internet [2].
[1] The Art of Doing Science and Engineering:
https://press.stripe.com/the-art-of-doing-science-and-engine...
[2] Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet:
https://katiehafner.com/books-new/where-wizards-stay-up-late...
- - Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
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