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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize. VICE reporter and YACHT lead singer Claire L. Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her ... social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the internet what it is today"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is also a history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter,...
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When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives--and the broader scheme of human culture--can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now. In Tubes, journalist...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"The Internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this ... narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology ... He chronicles the whole ... story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of college kids set off a once-in-an-epoch revolution with what would become the first 'dotcom.' Depicting the lives of now-famous innovators like Netscape's Marc...
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