Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet

From the Publisher: Millions tuned into the Internet to access the Starr Report. Now Nerds 2.0.1, the first detailed history of computer networking, tells the dramatic story of how we have come to be wired together by the Internet and the World Wide Web. Stephen Segaller's timely book draws on detailed interviews with more than seventy of the pioneers who have user their technological genius and business skills to make incompatible systems work together, to make networking user-friendly, and to create a new global communications medium that rivals the telephone system or television in its scope and reach.