A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet

by John Naughton

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1999 marks the 30th anniversary of the Internet. John Naughton writes about this remarkable feature of modern life in much the same way that Nick Hornby writes about football. The book is witty, insightful and based upon his own experiences.

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This was a set book in an Open University course I was taking at the time. My version was published in 2001. It is about the beginnings of the internet - how it all started and developed up to about 1999. It has a really useful glossary at the back which helped my understanding of the subject.
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To the memory of Vannevar Bush, who dreamed it up, and to Tim Berners-Lee, who made it happen.

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History, someone once said, is just the record of what one age finds interesting in another. (Preface)

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1999 marks the 30th anniversary of the Internet. John Naughton writes about this remarkable feature of modern life in much the same way that Nick Hornby writes about football. The book is witty, insightful and based upon his own experiences.

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