TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carpenter,Brian E.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Network Geeks: How They Built the Internet 
SN  - 9781447150251
AV  - QA76.17 
U1  - 004.09 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Springer London, Imprint: Copernicus
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Computers
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - History of Computing
KW  - Popular Science, general
KW  - Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
N1  - Hey Folks! -- Before My Time -- Where Do Geeks Come From? -- Going Up -- In Control -- Two Ivory Towers -- Diversity -- Economy Class -- Parallel Universes -- The Years of Miraculous Growth -- Going Under
N2  - The impact on modern society made by the Internet is immeasurable. Yet some questioned “why anyone would want such a thing” when the idea was first introduced. Part history, part memoir and part cultural study, Network Geeks charts the creation of the Internet and the establishment of the Internet Engineering Task Force, from the viewpoint of a self-proclaimed geek who witnessed these developments first-hand. With boundless enthusiasm and abundant humour, Brian Carpenter leads the reader on a journey from post-war Britain to post-millennium New Zealand, describing how the Internet grew into today’s ubiquitous, global network, including the genesis of the World-Wide Web in the hotbeds of a particle collider at CERN. Illuminating the science and technology behind the apparent “magic trick” of the Internet, Network Geeks opens a window into the initially bewildering world of the Internet engineering geek. After reading this book, you may wish to join this world yourself
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5025-1
ER  -