In fact, it would probably be safe to assume that most users believe that the origins of the internet came about in the late 1990s. The story of the various interlocking aspects of the internet isn't readily understood by the average user of its technologies. Luckily this book has an index and now we have the internet as well to help us out.Īll that said, if you are interested in the history of the Internet this book is a great place to start. Sure, the book may seem like a never ending list of names, but ARPAnet was an endeavor that lasted for 21 years and had hundreds of contributors, so there is no other way. Now, I see many people struggling with keeping track of people. When it came to explaining the technology and engineering I believe that the author managed to hit the right balance of writing it in general terms without watering it too much down. It is both reassuring and disturbing that flaming has been with us since the 70s. Of course there were little detours into the culture of openness and early flame wars as well. Agent: James Levine, Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency.This book is about the creation of the Internet, or better yet the ARPAnet (1969 - 1990) that spawned it.Įverything is here: the people and reasons for its creation, beginnings of underlying technologies like packet switching, distributed networks an so on, early fights over standards and finally its proliferation and metamorphosis from ARPAnet to the Internet. It’s a remarkable outing, and readers will look forward to seeing what Hafner does next. The heartbreaking late reveal will take a second reading to fully sink in and pushes the troubled marriage genre to dizzying extremes. Starting out as a lighthearted romance before taking an unsettling turn, this upsets expectations in the best way.
She leaves him and he takes the boys on a bike trip to Italy, where a jaw-dropping twist ensues. They decide to foster two young boys, but when the Covid-19 pandemic hits and Ethan develops an overbearing attachment to them, his relationship with Barb disintegrates. Having lost his parents at an early age, he also fears becoming a father, but Barb changes his mind, only for them to discover after a year of trying to conceive that Ethan is sterile. They soon marry, though Ethan suspects he’s scored out of his league. While working as the chief technology officer at a startup in Philadelphia, Ethan meets Barb, a University of Pennsylvania grad student, and the two start dating. Journalist Hafner’s marvelous fiction debut centers on a socially awkward man’s neuroses about fatherhood.
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