Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

Where wizards stay up late:

the origins of the Internet
Front Cover
34 Reviews
Simon & Schuster, 1996 - Business & Economics - 304 pages
Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. 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.

In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.

From inside the book

What people are saying - Write a review

User ratings

5 stars
10
4 stars
12
3 stars
8
2 stars
3
1 star
1

Review: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

User Review  - Mike Nelson - Goodreads

I have been using this book in my master's level class, "What's Shaping the Internet," at Georgetown for five years. It's essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the origins of the Internet. All the key characters involved are included--and captured in detail. Read full review

Review: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

User Review  - Chad - Goodreads

This was a good book but, it was kind of a mess. Sometimes things were happening chronologically other times autobiographically. During the autobiographical portions they tend to throw a lot of names ... Read full review

All 26 reviews »

Related books

Contents

II
11
III
43
IV
82
Copyright

10 other sections not shown

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

References to this book

From other books

Politics as usual: the cyberspace "revolution"
Teachers and Techno-Literacy: Managing Literacy, Technology and Learning in ...
All Book Search results »

References from web pages

Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon's Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet is an account of this story. It is also provides little known behind ...
english.ttu.edu/ kairos/ 2.1/ reviews/ wizards.html

Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon A Review by Vince Juliano. "Is this going to slow me down when I'm ...
www.ctlibraryassociation.org/ lookbooks/ reviews/ wizards.html

nytimes
The Info Footpath. Date: September 8, 1996, Late Edition - Final Byline: By Stephen Manes Lead:. WHERE WIZARDS STAY UP LATE The Origins of the Internet. ...
www.nytimes.com/ books/ 98/ 08/ 02/ specials/ hafner-wizards.html

09/16/96 WHERE DID THE NET COME FROM, DADDY?
That's why Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, could not be more timely. The Internet is clearly the ...
www.businessweek.com/ 1996/ 38/ b349359.htm

Where wizards stay up late
48 complexity. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. symmetrical mutation may be adaptive. from the standpoint of evolvability, it ...
doi.wiley.com/ 10.1002/ (SICI)1099-0526(199711/ 12)3:2%3C48::AID-CPLX10%3E3.0.CO;2-S

Where Wizards Stay Up Late
wherewizardsstayuplat e -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon ISBN: 0-684-83267-4 ...
www.olografix.org/ gubi/ estate/ libri/ wizards/ wizards.html

GBN: Where Wizards Stay up Late
Back | Read the Book Club Newsletter September 1996. Where Wizards Stay up Late. The Origins of the Internet. Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon ...
www.gbn.com/ BookClubSelectionDisplayServlet.srv?si=285

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet | Journal ...
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet from Journal of Engineering Education in Reference provided free by Find Articles.
findarticles.com/ p/ articles/ mi_qa3886/ is_/ ai_n8786478

Where Wizards Stay up Late
Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet, 1st edition. Where Wizards Stay up Late. Purchase this Book · Purchase this Book ...
portal.acm.org/ citation.cfm?id=547625& dl=ACM& coll=portal

Simon & Schuster: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The ...
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet By Matthew Lyon and Matthew Lyon in ebook at Media Resources.
www.simonsays.com/ content/ book.cfm?tab=32& pid=479625& agid=16

About the author (1996)

Katie Hafner is a technology correspondent at Newsweek and coauthor of Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier. Matthew Lyon and Katie Hafner are married and live in the San Francisco Bay area.

Bibliographic information