[Air-L] Internet history textbook

Hal Roberts hroberts at cyber.law.harvard.edu
Mon Mar 14 03:56:13 PDT 2011


Janet Abbate's "Inventing the Internet" does a great job of melding the 
technological and social histories of the Internet.

-hal

On 3/13/11 5:25 PM, Thomas Jones wrote:
> Without question the best book for the history of the Internet, and where we are today is "Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World".
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> This should be required introductory reading for anyone in the information field.
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> http://www.amazon.com/Who-Controls-Internet-Illusions-Borderless/dp/0195340647/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
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> HTH,
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> Thomas Jones
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> -- Albert Einstein, On Education --
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> On Mar 13, 2011, at 5:48 PM, CarrieLynn Reinhard wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am designing a course for undergraduates about new media technologies.  One
>> thing I want to cover is the history and technological construction of the
>> Internet, WWW, and web applications.
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>> Are there any good textbooks or reading materials you can suggest I use on the
>> syllabus?
>> CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, PhD
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