[SIGCIS-Members] books on history of the Internet

[Ceruzzi, Paul]

Paul E.:
 
It is unfortunate that the price, and heft, of our book on _The Internet & American Commerce_ may discourage its use for courses. However, MIT Press is making it available as a .pdf download--you have to pay, but it is not as much and may be more comfortable for today's generation of students, who are loathe to purchase old-fashioned books. I don't have the URL, but I think you can find it through MIT Press's web site. The book may also be available as an illegal download from a Chinese web site, but I am not going to go there! Talk about a teachable moment.
 
Best,
 
Paul Ceruzzi

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Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 14:35:49 -0700
From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" <gbowker at scu.edu>
Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Introducing myself
To: Paul Edwards <pne at umich.edu>
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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.
>
> I'm looking for suggestions on three things:
>
> 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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