How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network

by Shane Greenstein

Book Overview

In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream--and how the commercialization of the Internet was by no means a foregone conclusion at its outset.

Shane Greenstein...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691167362
• ISBN13: 9780691167367
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"