The Internet is an anarchistic e-mail network that has spread uncontrollably and now circles the globe. Born of the Pentagon's communications system in the 1960s, it has an increasing total of 30 million users who can tap into professional libraries, participate in discussion groups, look at weather maps, read White House press releases, and exchange scientific and academic information. Taking a journey through the highways and byways of the Internet, this book explores the networks and debates the issues created by this new technology.
- ISBN10 0316360090
- ISBN13 9780316360098
- Publish Date 1 February 1996 (first published 13 April 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Back Bay Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 336
- Language English