HOW THE INTERNET BECAME COMMERCIAL: INNOVATION, PRIVATIZATION, A torrent

Author: Shane Greenstein
Publication Date: October 20, 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 0691167362
ISBN-13: 978-0691167367
Pages: 488 pages
Format: pdf
Size: 16M

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In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream―and how the commercialization of the Internet was by no means a foregone conclusion at its outset.

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