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 ————————————————— Paul N. Edwards, Assoc. Professor of Information
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