From Gutenberg to the Internet presents 63 original readings from the history of computing,
networking, and telecommunications arranged thematically by chapters. Most of the …

From the Publisher: Just try to imagine the world without the Internet. Yet in the early 1990s,
hardly any of us knew it existed. What even fewer know is that its roots stretch back well into …

One of the most puzzling lapses in accounts of the rise of the West following the decline of
the Roman Empire is the casual way historians have dealt with Gutenberg's invention of …

TRN's Bookshelf: The Victorian Internet Title: The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of
the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers Author: Tom Standage Publication …

From the Publisher: Author Art Wolinsky takes readers on a journey through the
development of the Internet and the growth of the World Wide Web. The evolution of the …

A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking
history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything. The internet was …

The dream of a digital network linking people and information around the globe is commonly
considered the technological revolution of the 1990s, with the shape of the twenty-first …

One popular history of the Internet begins by quoting a pioneer's hopes that historians would
dispel the myth, already prevalent, that the Internet was invented ''to protect national security …

All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870,
when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological …