{"product_id":"network-geeks-how-they-built-the-internet-paperback","title":"Network Geeks: How They Built the Internet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian E. Carpenter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHey Folks!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore My Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Do Geeks Come From?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing Up\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo Ivory Towers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiversity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEconomy Class\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParallel Universes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Years of Miraculous Growth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing Under\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe impact on modern society made by the Internet is immeasurable. Yet some questioned \"why anyone would want such a thing\" when the idea was first introduced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart history, part memoir and part cultural study, \u003ci\u003eNetwork Geeks\u003c\/i\u003e charts the creation of the Internet and the establishment of the Internet Engineering Task Force, from the viewpoint of a self-proclaimed geek who witnessed these developments first-hand. With boundless enthusiasm and abundant humour, Brian Carpenter leads the reader on a journey from post-war Britain to post-millennium New Zealand, describing how the Internet grew into today's ubiquitous, global network, including the genesis of the World-Wide Web in the hotbeds of a particle collider at CERN. Illuminating the science and technology behind the apparent \"magic trick\" of the Internet, \u003ci\u003eNetwork Geeks\u003c\/i\u003e opens a window into the initially bewildering world of the Internet engineering geek. After reading this book, you may wish to join this world yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Brian Carpenter\u003c\/b\u003e is a physicist, computer scientist, and engineer born in Leicester, England just after World War II and educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester. As leader of the networking group at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, he was in at the birth of the European Internet in the late 1980s, and the World-Wide Web was invented elsewhere in the same building. He has been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force for many years and chaired it in 2005-2007. He's also chaired both the Internet Architecture Board and the Internet Society. As well as CERN, he's worked for IBM, and for Massey University and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He has numerous technical publications to his name, including more than thirty Internet Request for Comment documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 161\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42717787717695,"sku":"9781447150244","price":30.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/313763347caa3b0cca8d13e0eaea89d2.webp?v=1765079675","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/network-geeks-how-they-built-the-internet-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}