Inventing the Internet
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Inventing the Internet is a book
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 written by Janet Abbate. MIT Press
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 published the book in 1999. It is in print with ISBN 0-262-51115-0. The book might be useful to a person interested in the history of packet switching
Packet switching
Packet switching is a digital networking communications method that groups all transmitted data – regardless of content, type, or structure – into suitably sized blocks, called packets. Packet switching features delivery of variable-bit-rate data streams over a shared network...

, and possibly other communications paradigms, as well.

The following is a copy of the book's table of contents.
  1. Introduction...
  2. White Heat and Cold War: The Origins and Meanings of Packet Switching
  3. Building the ARPANET: Challenges and Strategies
  4. "The Most Neglected Element": Users Transform the ARPANET
  5. From ARPANET to Internet
  6. The Internet in the International Standards Arena
  7. Popularizing the Internet
  8. Notes
  9. Bibliography
  10. Index
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