[SIGCIS-Members] Introducing myself

[Geoffrey C. Bowker]

Hi Paul,

Good questions all - I'll be interested in the response.  Henry Lowood 
has some nice stuff at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/lowood.html, 
though I suspect you know this already.  Doug Engelbart's demo is on the 
web.  I could set up a skype session with Regis McKenna, who knows SV 
backwards.  There was a Nova or BBC series which I heard good reports 
on, but I forget the details.  Exciting is hard to come by in general 
though.  Laura de Nardis' excellent new work on internet names will not 
be accessible enough I fear.  There's also The Wealth of Networks, 
though I'm not too attuned to the analysis - 
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page.

take care,

geof


Paul Edwards wrote:
> All -
>
> I'm getting ready to teach an undergrad course (juniors and seniors) 
> on "History of Computers and the Internet" for the first time in 7 years.
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> I'm looking for suggestions on three things:
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> 1) A recent book on the history of personal computers that's 
> well-written and exciting for undergrads. I used to use Fire in the 
> Valley, but that's very dated now. 
>
> 2) On history of the Internet, I've been using Janet Abbate's 
> Inventing the Internet for years. It's a great book but somewhat 
> inaccessible for undergrads, and now a bit dated.
>
> 3) Books or articles -- again, exciting for undergrads -- on history 
> of the WWW. Please, not Tim Berners-Lee's awesomely self-centered memoir.
>
> Thanks for any and all.
>
> - Paul
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