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NERDS: a brief history of the internet
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The dissemination of the Starr report over the Internet provided a captivating illustration of the Internet's unparalleled capacity. The Net's e-mails, online shopping, and virtual communities has been thirty years in the making. Its dramatic story is told in Nerds: a brief history of the Internet, is the first comprehensive history of the Internet. NERDS author Stephen Segaller draws on interviews with over seventy of the pioneers who have used their technological genius and business skills to create and shape the Internet. Segaller's history will entertain, surprise, and inform every reader, whether they are Netizens or not. Segaller's book accompanies the forthcoming three-hour television documentary premiering on public television PBS on November 25, 1998. NERDS (1998, 320 pages, $27.50). In bookstores now, or contact Harper Collins Publishers: 1-800-331-3761.
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