TY - BOOK ID - 8060410 TI - Network geeks : how they built the internet PY - 2013 SN - 1447150244 1447150252 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Computer networks -- History. KW - Internet -- History. KW - Internet -- Software. KW - Internet. KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Computer Science KW - Computer networks. KW - Geeks (Computer enthusiasts) KW - Communication systems, Computer KW - Computer communication systems KW - Data networks, Computer KW - ECNs (Electronic communication networks) KW - Electronic communication networks KW - Networks, Computer KW - Teleprocessing networks KW - Computer geeks KW - Cybergeeks 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). KW - Computer users KW - Data transmission systems KW - Digital communications KW - Electronic systems KW - Information networks KW - Telecommunication KW - Cyberinfrastructure KW - Electronic data processing KW - Network computers KW - Distributed processing KW - Science (General). KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Application software. KW - Application computer programs KW - Application computer software KW - Applications software KW - Apps (Computer software) KW - Computer software KW - Automatic computers KW - Automatic data processors KW - Computer hardware KW - Computing machines (Computers) KW - Electronic brains KW - Electronic calculating-machines KW - Electronic computers KW - Hardware, Computer KW - Computer systems KW - Cybernetics KW - Machine theory KW - Calculators KW - Cyberspace KW - Internet KW - Computer networks KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8060410 AB - 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. ER -