Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. This book captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring adventure. In 1996, turning back to the topic of technology, Hafner returned to Simon & Schuster to publish Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, which she wrote with her late husband, Matthew Lyon. Licklider at MIT and a band of brave and brilliant computer whizzes began work on a nationwide network of interlocking computers. In the 1960s, when computers were regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Taking readers behind the scenes, 'Where Wizards Stay Up Late' captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. In the 1960' s, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. '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. Where Wizards Stay Up Late describes in detail the process scientists went through to connect both the east and west coast with one single network and how their. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Twenty five years ago, it didn' t exist.
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