What would a cultural history of the Internet look like? The question almost makes no sense:
the Internet spans the globe and traverses any number of completely distinct human groups …

The ways in which historians define the Internet profoundly shape the histories we write.
Many studies implicitly define the Internet in material terms, as a particular set of hardware …

The making of history of technology is in itself a challenge, but making Internet history is a
goal that is likely to be overly ambitious, given the breadth and complexity of such a …

We explore the gap between broad conceptions of the Internet common in daily life and the
rather narrow framing of most existing work on Internet history. Looking at both scholarly …

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 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 …

How the Internet Changed History examines the birth of the Internet, how it works, and how it
has revolutionized culture, industry, and business. Features include essential facts, a …

Across time, space and language, the meaning of “the Internet” is taken to be self-evident;
appearing to both the scholar and the everyday user as a singular, homogeneous …

TAKE ALOOK AT THE STANDARD TEXTBOOKS on post-World War II America. You will
search in vain through the index for references to the Internet or its predecessor, the …

A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the
Internet from the 1950s to the present and examines how the balance of power has shifted …