Nerds 2.0.1
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1575001063 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet presents the development of the Web as a product of colliding, dualistic forces: the individuality of the personal computer and the universality of a global network. Segaller also chronicles the failures of companies who didn't realize what their programmers had made available to them. Author Stephen Segaller covers all the current heavy hitters of the technology industry in depth: Novell, 3Com, and Cisco. --Jennifer Buckendorff. Along the way, other complementary opposites arise, such as the intersection of the "computer lib" hippie hacker and the IBM or Pentagon bureaucrat. The biographies of these visionaries, and the magnificent changes their ideas induced, make Nerds 2.0.1 compelling re
Based on four years of research and interviews with the founders of the successful companies who started in their parents' garages with credit card advances and with the venture capitalists who supported them, as well as with the unlucky engineers who missed the patent deadlines and key phone calls, Stephen Segaller tells the human story behind the Internet. A romp through the development of the "Information Superhighway" from the people who brought you "Triumph of the Nerds." Nerds 2.0.1 is the first light-hearted but comprehensive account of how the Internet developed from a medium for academic geeks, hackers, and policy wonks into a billion-dollar vehicle for communication and commerce. The brand names Microsoft, Apple, Netscape, Intel, Novell, AOL, 3Com, Java, Sun, , Yahoo!, and Excite are known worldwide, but for every one of these success stories lie a multit
A Customer said Right from the hip - a favorable preview. You might think that after working with computers and networks for nearly two decades I might have encountered a similar published history somewhere along the way, but I had to wait this long to finally satisfy my curiosity about many matters related to the Internet.On another note, you know that you're growing old when such an eventful volume covers your life's exact timeline, and when you've watched over half the volume's events unfold before you in the workplace.Stephen Segaller deserves credit for compiling an exhaustive background of four decades of Internet-related activity, in. A Customer said Interesting in places but very tedious in others. This is a strange book, though the author collects some really neat information together. Thus, it is worth it to read. But I take issue with several things. First off, the authors makes such a big deal about early hackers being hippies and drug users. Since that is not substantiated elsewhere I have to wonder if Segaller really wanted this to be true and so he made it seem so. I mean he talks about it so much that one gets the idea he wants to be a hippie and a druggie. Really! Most of the nerdy computer types are just too happy to get high off C code rather than ecstasy or whatever. Excellent computing and networking primer for lay readers D. Cloyce Smith Lay readers who really don't understand how they are able to log on to their computers and read this review will benefit greatly from this useful and lucid introduction to the origins and development of personal computing and the Internet. A companion to a PBS series (which I did not see), this "oral history" of the Internet begins with the Pentagon-funded origins of networking, describes the advent of PCs, and ends with the giddy stock market created by venture capitalists and IPOs.Like the seminal "Where Wizards Stay Up Late," this books debunks the myth that the Internet was creat