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Netizens: on the history and impact of Usenet and the Internet Hauben, N & Hauben, R., 1997
Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0818677066
The aim of this book, as stated in the introduction, is to cover '... the creation and development of the participatory global computer network [and] ... the history of the Net and the impact it is having on the lives of people today.' It is a collection of articles written over a period of four years, some of which have already been published online, arranged in four sections designed to be read independently.
Part I deals with the Net as it is in what another author has referred to as `the ever-changing Now' and is mainly intended for 'newbies.' Part II is a series of more technical articles on the early history of computer science and the development of ARPANET and Usenet. It includes an article on the...