workingwriter reviewed Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner
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5 stars
This book is recognized as one of the seminal histories of the early Internet, and deservedly so. Starting with the origins of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)in Eisenhower's Defense Department and walking through the Sixties and Seventies as the ARPANet is built, grows, and eventually dismantled. Interviews with many of the pioneers make this book as entertaining as it is informative.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late is focused on the engineers, academics and government bureaucrats that built the machines that connect together. It is less about the human connections built as the Internet grew.
I could go on, but if you have any interest in this topic, this book should be at the top of your list.
