Where Wizards Stay Up Late (Book Review)
The Internet is an amazing thing, and knowing about its origins and history is very important, and fun to learn about none the less. In this story you will find one of the best histories of the beginning of the Internet, and learn a lot more along the way.
In a few short years the Internet has exploded onto the mainstream of the world, and perhaps that is for the better of mankind. Many times when someone tries to explain this technology it has lead to tons of books that try to educate a common man who knows little about the innermost workings of this technology. Now out of all these books explaining the origins of the Internet comes a technological history of the direct ancestor of the Internet.
Coming out of nowhere, appearing in homes, schools, and now pretty much anywhere you go, from a handful of facilities …show more content…
And was it created by a one company? What was the ARPAnet? Who did invent the Internet, and why, and when?
Well, all of these questions are answered in this great book, “Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet”. This book is unlike any other technical book that you will found today, in the sense of readability. It reads along smoothly, pulling in a reader’s attention while also managing to teach them a lot along the way!
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon have explained the origins of the Internet successfully, and in a unique way. They take the reader on a journey, which starts in the early Cold War days with Sputnik launching, and ends with today’s online services, and electronic mail, along with the WWW (World Wide Web addresses). There aren’t many ads that you see today without seeing http for a website link.
While reading this book the reader will find that they are shown the dreams of visionaries, scientists, and engineers, who all shared the same hope of using their technology to connect people to people, which has been completely
The Internet is an amazing thing, and knowing about its origins and history is very important, and fun to learn about none the less. In this story you will find one of the best histories of the beginning of the Internet, and learn a lot more along the way.
In a few short years the Internet has exploded onto the mainstream of the world, and perhaps that is for the better of mankind. Many times when someone tries to explain this technology it has lead to tons of books that try to educate a common man who knows little about the innermost workings of this technology. Now out of all these books explaining the origins of the Internet comes a technological history of the direct ancestor of the Internet.
Coming out of nowhere, appearing in homes, schools, and now pretty much anywhere you go, from a handful of facilities …show more content…
And was it created by a one company? What was the ARPAnet? Who did invent the Internet, and why, and when?
Well, all of these questions are answered in this great book, “Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet”. This book is unlike any other technical book that you will found today, in the sense of readability. It reads along smoothly, pulling in a reader’s attention while also managing to teach them a lot along the way!
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon have explained the origins of the Internet successfully, and in a unique way. They take the reader on a journey, which starts in the early Cold War days with Sputnik launching, and ends with today’s online services, and electronic mail, along with the WWW (World Wide Web addresses). There aren’t many ads that you see today without seeing http for a website link.
While reading this book the reader will find that they are shown the dreams of visionaries, scientists, and engineers, who all shared the same hope of using their technology to connect people to people, which has been completely