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Where wizards stay up late the origins of the Internet

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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  • "互联网络传奇"
  • "Where wizards stay up late"
  • "Where wizards stay up late"@it
  • "Anfänge des Internet"
  • "Geschichte des Internet"
  • "Hu lian wang luo chuan qi"

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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."@en
  • "Hafner and Lyon focus on the 1960's and the pioneering work of the engineers and scientists who designed the Arpanet. From their work sprang the global Internet, and some of their ideas -- like e-mail -- form the backbone of idea-sharing for new technology."@en
  • "The story of the small group of researchers and engineers whose invention, daring in its day, became the foundation for the Internet."@en
  • "Une enquête dans les coulisses des universités américaines, des centres de recherches, du Pentagone, pour révéler l'histoire de l'aventure scientifique de l'Internet. Comment s'est construit ce réseau ? Qui en sont les pères fondateurs ? Pourquoi Internet ? Une présentation des protagonistes dans leur contexte, de la vie quotidienne des labos..."
  • "In the late 1960s, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency funded at project to create computer communication among its university-based researchers. The experiment was inspired by J.C.R. Licklider, a brilliant scientist from MIT who saw the potential of computers as communications devices. This is the story of the small group of researchers and engineers who laid the foundation for the Internet. In 1969, Arpa awarded the contract for the most integral part of this network--the Interface Message Processor (IMP) switch--to Bolt Beranek and Newman, a small Cambridge, Mass., company. Out of their efforts a nationwide network called the ARPANET grew from four initial sites, eventually merging in 1990 with the Internet it had spawned."
  • ""The Internet has changed our lives. It has revolutionized research, altered the world of retailing, and caused virtually every institution to redefine itself. Meanwhile, e-mail has become an indispensable means of communication. But only a few decades ago the internetwas the 'Wizards Stay Up Late' is the fascinating story of the pioneers who created breakthrough since the telephone. In the 1960s, 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 had 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 happ accidents of their darling, stunningly successful venture"--Page 4 of cover."@en

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  • "Geschiedenis (vorm)"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Where wizards stay up late the origins of the Internet"@en
  • "Where wizards stay up late : the origins of the internet"@en
  • "Where wizards stay up late : the origins of the internet"
  • "术士们敖夜的地方 : 互联网络传奇"
  • "When wizards stay up late : the origins of the internet"
  • "Where wizards stay up late"
  • "Arpa Kadabra : die Geschichte des Internet"
  • "Wang lu ying xiong"
  • "Les sorciers du net : les origines de l'internet"
  • "Arpa Kadabra oder die Anfänge des Internet"
  • "术士们熬夜的地方"
  • "Where wizards stay up late : the origins of the Internet"@en
  • "Where wizards stay up late : the origins of the Internet"
  • "Arpa Kadabra oder die Geschichte des Internet"
  • "La storia del futuro : le origini di Internet"@it
  • "La storia del futuro : le origini di Internet"
  • "Shu shi men ao ye de di fang : hu lian wang luo chuan qi"
  • "Shu shi men ao ye de di fang"
  • "網路英雄"
  • "Arpa Kadabra, oder, Die Anfänge des Internet"

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