Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet First Paperback Edition Edition

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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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David Plotnikoff San Jose Mercury News The book, almost certainly destined to be the definitive work on the birth and early years of the Internet, is sweeping in scope....Whoever chooses to write the next chapter in the saga...has a tough act to follow.

Daniel Akst Los Angeles Times Important...meticulous...admirably straightforward.

Lars Eighner The Texas Observer In all the dreck and dross of Internet books, here is a brilliant gem...remarkably well written.

Mark Baechtel The Washington Post Excellent...makes for crackling entertainment...reawakens a sense of wonder in readers jaded by too much Internet hype.

Richard Bernstein The New York Times Book Review If you always wanted to know who put the 'at' sign in your E-mail address, then Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the book for you.

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Katie Hafner is a technology correspondent at Newsweek and coauthor of Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier. Matthew Lyon and Katie Hafner are married and live in the San Francisco Bay area.

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First Paperback Edition edition (January 21, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684832674
ISBN-13: 978-0684832678
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How the Internet was born - an amazing story.

September 27, 2016

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I have been meaning to purchase this book for years. It tells the story of how the Arpanet was formed, the Arpanet's design being essentially the same as the Internet's except that the former was intended for connecting academic and federal government institutions rather than commercial institutions and private citizens. It is amazing how such a small group of brilliant scientists and engineers worked so closely across institutions and the country to not only virtually overnight conceptualize but then to actually build the first long distance digital network that has grown to become essential across the world. Their dedication and astounding foresight resulted in creating something, in a day 45 years ago when transistors had hardly been invented and computers were literally refrigerator and room sized, that would eventually be extended to reliably connect even today's personal computers and smartphones at orders of magnitude higher speeds than were possible at the time.

Truly inspiring and highly recommended.

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ARPANET --> Internet

June 8, 2014

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A surprisingly lively and engaging book, the reader is taken back to the early days of the Cold War and introduced to the people, technologies and times that caused the birth and evolution of what has become the 21st Century's defining backbone - the Internet. Meeting the "wizards" for the first time, you get the sense for the challenges, the brilliance and the stone age technology that first birthed the web.

As a child of the 1970's and living in a town that had IBM as its largest employer, I remember well the development of the personal computer, the disruption of the mainframe business, and the emergence of the internet during my 1989-1993 college days. It is interesting now to look back as see the forces that were at the cutting edge of that great disruptive force that changed the course of communications. Discussed are items like the development of the Ethernet and TCP/IP - which still form the backbone of many networking technologies.

Interesting, insightful and well written, you will gain much appreciation for the true pioneers of the internet - the (almost 100%) men of ARPA and their progeny - ARPANET - the primal ooze from which the current World Wide Web and networking evolved.

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A Walk down Memory Lane

January 6, 2014

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I got involved in the Internet when it was the Arpanet--several years ago. The first computer I had anything to do with was the Illicac III, at the University of Illinois. As I remember it, it was water cooled, and took up a 3 story building. I suspect they changed out all the relays and vacuum tubes every night. As a lowly library school student, my participation was held to punching cards, turning them in and calling in a midnight to see if they had run my cards yet. Later as a technical services librarian in Georgia, I was introduced to the DOS version of the Arpanet when they rolled it out to the University of Georgia branch in my town. So I already knew a lot of the history. Some of my information was wrong, if the book is to be believed, and it rings true. If you are just now getting involved in the Net or have been involved for decades, it makes fascinating reading. I recommend Where Wizards Stay Up Late to all nerds everywhere, and to everybody else who uses the web regularly.

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An A+ History of the People Who Helped Create Today's Internet

June 6, 2014

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This book was an excellent history of the people, ideas, and technologies that gave rise to the modern Internet. It was also riveting. I had never really heard of anyone of the people in this book, with the exception of Tim Berners-Lee, who is only mentioned briefly near the end of the book. Berbers-Lee is credited with creating/inventing the World Wide Web in 1990. This book is about everything that happened before that. Starting in the 1950s and 60s, the book covers the birth of the idea of networking computers, the development of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPAnet), which takes up most of the book; the development of standards and applications such as the TCP/IP protocols, TELNET, and email. It also touches on such things as the ALOHANet, the NSFNet, the invention of Ethernet, the idea and development of packet-switching as a way of moving information through a network vs one message at a time through phone lines, etc. It starts off by challenging the belief that the Internet was primarily, or even secondarily, developed as a way for the U.S. military to communicate in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S., and only gets better from there. P.S., I read this book because it was listed as, "suggested reading" for a Coursera course I am taking this semester called, "The history of the Internet, technology, and security."

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May 16, 2011

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I enjoyed this book very much. at the time I was barely aware of the machinations going on, but I was benefitting as a consumer from the steps along the way. the meticulous research and details in the book enlightened and delighted me. this is my history in a way, and I should know it. now i have a great source, independent of any wiki.

my father was an engineer at AT&T; we had a teletype in the basement, then a bare chip 'computer' that played daisy and one that was a rocket war game. that one we hacked to cheat so the rocket planes would sail off one end of the tiny screen and come back on the other, to sneak up on the enemy.
dad brought home a 'luggable' computer w an amber monitor, used for trouble shooting telephone systems, but it wasn't until I was married in 84 that my husband and I got an XT. it was marvelous, even tho it did very little. we played adventure on it, and then our own d & d game. before quicken came out, we had a little checking account program. by 1992 we had 2 computers and the fastest modem money could buy, accounts on compuserve and prodigy and our own little geekworld.
now I own more computing power ( and individual machines ) than the first arpanet; not difficult. it's been a grand ride and I can't wait to see what come next!

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