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sandie99
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Good book about Internet
« on: Nov 28th, 2006, 9:38am » |
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I just wonder if someone could recommed a great book about internet.
I'm working on my dissertation about online fanhood and I need to include something about internet's history and development.
Naturally I'm spoiled with choice, so book which tells the basics in a simple manner would be lovely. If get into too much detail, my dissertation page count could easily double...  Here the works are usually between 70 and 120 pages long.
I asked help from the people at my department, but you know the uni folks...they know a thing or 2 about their own topics and not much about anything else. 
(When I come to think of it; why do I stress about my dissertation? After all, my tutor has admitted that she has no idea what I'm writing about...)
All the tips would be useful! 
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Sanna
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Re: Good book about Internet
« Reply #1 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 10:00am » |
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Drop Al Gore a PM.
I'm sure he'd be happy to expound.
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Re: Good book about Internet
« Reply #2 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 11:19am » |
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on Nov 28th, 2006, 9:38am, sandie99 wrote:| I need to include something about internet's history and development. |
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A little something, about this guy. Other info buried somewhere around here but internet is quicker. A little Finnish connection can make it interesting.
http://www.einsteinyear.org/bernerslee
Millennium prize goes to web inventor
Physics graduate and World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has been given the first ever Millennium Technology Prize.
Physics graduate Tim Berners-Lee has been given the first ever Millennium Technology Prize for inventing the World Wide Web. It was released on the internet in 1991 for free - if he had decided to patent it, the WWW would be completely different! He was working at the particle physics laboratory CERN, in Geneva, when he was developing the WWW, and now he works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devloping it further. The prize of one million euros was awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. See http://www.technologyawards.org for more info.
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Re: Good book about Internet
« Reply #3 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 8:53pm » |
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on Nov 28th, 2006, 11:19am, Kevin_M wrote:
Physics graduate and World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has been given the first ever Millennium Technology Prize. |
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That is about the World Wide Web, not the internet, don't worry most people get them confused.
I don't know of any books but knowing that the public internet was started in 1975 will help. Look at the bottom. There is lots of good info on Wikipedia but I wouldn't quote anything there. Check out the sources at the bottom. You might find a lead to a good book there.
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Re: Good book about Internet
« Reply #5 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 9:33pm » |
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on Nov 28th, 2006, 9:22pm, lskilly wrote:Internet for dummies
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Please fix your page widening link buy using the url tags or click that little earth above.
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Re: Good book about Internet
« Reply #6 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 9:54pm » |
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Quote:| The first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by 1 January 1983, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. (This date is held by some to be technically that of the birth of the Internet.) It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1985. |
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This is fairly accurate from Wikipedia.
Right out of college, I was the entire IT (today's term) departmant for half billion dollar company in Houston 83' to 86' with 13 offices and 180 terminals (Data General equip.), my last project there was looking into internet capabilities.
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Re: Good book about Internet
« Reply #7 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 5:17am » |
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Thanks for the tips, guys!
I've actually seen some "for the dummies" books at my local library. Perhaps they'll have this one, too.
Thanks for the links, Paul. I've been wanting to add something about Arpanet, but I wasn't quite sure how.
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Re: Good book about Internet
« Reply #8 on: Nov 29th, 2006, 8:27am » |
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My first introduction to the :internet: was then called :arpanet: on Sept 7 1973. Internet was our nickname for it. Its birth was when the first four nodes were hooked up in 1969. They were USC, Standford, UCSB and the U of Utah.
I don't know of any books on the subject right off the top of my head. But I could bore you with a few thousand words of the early history from a personal point of view.
If memory servs there are one or two other old systems wonks that used to be on the board. Don't remember who.
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