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Janet Abbate (born June 3, 1962) is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on the history of computer science and the Internet , particularly on the participation of women in the field .
Donald Davies (1924–2000) independently invented and named the concept of packet switching for data communications in 1965 at the United Kingdom's National Physical Laboratory (NPL). [16] [9] In the same year, he proposed a national commercial data network in the UK employing high-speed switching nodes.
Web History, Internet History. Abbate, Janet (1999). ... Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industry. Free Press.
The work of INWG was a significant step in the creation of the Transmission Control Program and ultimately the Internet. [42]... the International Network Working Group was created ... to draw a larger cohort of people into this whole question of how to design and build packet switch networks. That eventually led to the design of the Internet.
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1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
With a new startup called Inrupt, Berners-Lee aims to fix some of the problems that have handicapped the so-called open web in an age of huge, closed platforms such as Facebook. Building on ideas ...
Janet Abbate's 1999 book Inventing the Internet was widely reviewed as an important work on the history of computing and networking, particularly in highlighting the role of social dynamics and of non-American participation in early networking development. [210] [211] The book was also praised for its use of archival resources to tell the ...