<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I would definitely recommend the book <i class="">Tubes</i> by Andrew Blum; he explores the huge physical infrastructure behind the Internet and the “cloud,” including the kind of equipment you see on telephone poles. Many of your emails still travel the same land and undersea routes as telegrams nearly 150 years ago. Ignore his recap of Internet history, which is mostly a repeat of ARPA creation myths. But the rest of the book is great. <div class="">An earlier piece along the same lines is the mid ‘90s <i class="">Wired</i> piece "<a href="https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/" class="">Mother Earth Motherboard</a>," by Neal Stephenson of <i class="">Snow Crash</i> fame. Very amusingly written, just smile at the mid ‘90s netopianism. </div><div class="">Best, Marc</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/staff/Marc,Weber/" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-size: 12px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Marc Weber</b></font></a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Curatorial Director, </span></font><a href="http://computerhistory.org/nethistory" style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Internet History Program</font></a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Computer History Museum</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">1401 N. Shoreline Blvd<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Mountain View, CA USA 94043<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">+1 415 282 6868<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="mailto:marc@webhistory.org" class="">marc@webhistory.org</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Cofounder Web History Project and Center, <a href="http://webhistory.org" class="">webhistory.org</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 16, 2016, at 12:26, Alexandre Hocquet <<a href="mailto:alexandre.hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr" class="">alexandre.hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Apologies if it has been mentionned before. I came across serendipitously on this art infrastructure project<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://gizmodo.com/how-to-see-the-internet-hiding-in-plain-sight-1787633653" class="">http://gizmodo.com/how-to-see-the-internet-hiding-in-plain-sight-1787633653</a><br class=""><br class="">which is also a book<br class=""><br class="">http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/networks-of-new-york/<br class=""><br class="">As maintainers and infrastructure studies have been debated recently on the list, I wondered if it was known, and if it was, what do SIGCISers think about this piece?<br class=""><br class="">Yours,<br class="">-- <br class="">***********************************************<br class="">Alexandre Hocquet<br class=""><br class="">Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré<br class="">Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr<br class="">http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet<br class="">***********************************************<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org<b style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-family: Arial;" class=""></b></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></body></html>