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3.0 out of 5 stars
The way the net used to be,
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This review is from: The User's Directory of Computer Networks (Paperback)
Accurate and thorough description of the U.S. part of the public Internet circa 1990. Good historical document; lots of the people mentioned in the text are still hard at work keeping the net running.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great way to peer back at the Internet before it became the Internet,
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This review is from: The User's Directory of Computer Networks (Paperback)
The concept behind this book is very interesting and it's something that wouldn't be possible in today's Internet. It's a directory of every server and network on the Internet before people knew what the Internet was and before the web existed.
For the most part it's just a text directory with hostnames (or IP addresses), the admin and their phone number. But the interesting part are the sprinkle of network maps that show all spokes of each network from college to college along with the connection speed of each line. Please note this book lists all major domains: .MIL, .EDU, .GOV. etc. From a pre-internet aspect, it's very interesting, but outside of the maps themselves, the book doesn't hold much interest. |
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The User's Directory of Computer Networks by Author Unknown (Paperback - May 18, 1990)
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