Where Wizards Stay up Late by L Hafner

Where Wizards Stay up Late by L Hafner

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.

Katie Hafner is a regular contributor to The New York Times, where she covers health care and technology issues. She's also written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Wired, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, and O: The Oprah Magazine, and has worked at Newsweek and BusinessWeek. She has written five prior books on subjects as diverse as the origins of the Internet, computer hackers, German reunification, and musician Glenn Gould. She currently resides in San Francisco.

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ISBN 13	9780684812014
ISBN 10	0684812010
Title	Where Wizards Stay up Late
Author	L Hafner
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Ltd
Year published	1996-09-24
Number of pages	8
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