Internetworking with TCP/IP (2nd ed.), vol. I
Internetworking with TCP/IP (2nd ed.), vol. I
The Internet message: closing the book with electronic mail
The Internet message: closing the book with electronic mail
Internet system handbook
Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Architects of the Web
Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
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In the 1970s, Arpanet, the forerunner of the Internet, was used by a small number of researchers doing work for the US Department of Defense. In the 1980s, Internet use spread among universities, and in the 1990s, its use surged among people and organizations worldwide. The Internet is the product of remarkable technological achievements in communications. Throughout history, people have anticipated wondrous benefits from such progress, but it was perhaps Wilhelm Eduard Weber who was the first to anticipate the Internet. He wrote in 1855: "When the globe is covered with a net of railroads and telegraph wires, this net will render services comparable to those of the nervous system in the human body, partly as a means of transport, partly as a means for the propagation of ideas and sensations with the speed of lightning." Operating today at transmission rates of up to several gigabits/second, the Internet has proved every forecast of its limitations to be wrong so far, and it is likely that the entire communications infrastructure of the 21st century will be organized around the Internet or its successor.