Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

Type

Book

Authors

Andrew Blum

ISBN 10

0061994936

ISBN 13

9780061994937

Tags

Data in the Enterprise, Internet, Groupware, & Telecommunications, Telecommunications & Sensors, Communication & Media Studies

Description

“Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound….You will never open an email in quite the same way again.”—Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of TrafficIn Tubes, Andrew Blum, a correspondent at Wired magazine, takes us on an engaging, utterly fascinating tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives and reveals the dark beating heart of the Internet itself. A remarkable journey through the brave new technological world we live in, Tubes is to the early twenty-first century what Soul of a New Machine—Tracy Kidder’s classic story of the creation of a new computer—was to the late twentieth. - from Amzon

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