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Hi Paul,<br>
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Good questions all - I'll be interested in the response. Henry Lowood
has some nice stuff at <a
href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/lowood.html">http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/lowood.html</a>,
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 - <a
href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page</a>.<br>
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take care,<br>
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geof<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I'm looking for suggestions on three things:</div>
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<div>1) A recent book on the history of personal computers that's
well-written and exciting for undergrads. I used to use <span
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the Valley</span>, but that's very dated now. </div>
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<div>2) On history of the Internet, I've been using Janet Abbate's <span
class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Inventing
the Internet</span> for years. It's a great book but somewhat
inaccessible for undergrads, and now a bit dated.</div>
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<div>3) Books or articles -- again, exciting for undergrads -- on
history of the WWW. Please, not Tim Berners-Lee's awesomely
self-centered memoir.</div>
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<div>Thanks for any and all.</div>
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