Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
Infobox Book
name =Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
author = Ed Krol
country = United States
language = English
genre = Computer Science
publisher = National Science Foundation
release_date = 1987
isbn =
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet", by Ed Krol, was published in 1987 through funding by the National Science Foundation. It was the first popular user's guide to the history and use of the Internet. The title was a reference to the popular "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
Background
In 1989, Ed Krol began working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. During this time, he published (through funding by the "National Science Foundation"), the online text document, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet" (August 25, 1993) [http://www.textfiles.com/internet/hitchhik.gui] , "because he had so much trouble getting information and was sick of telling the same story to everyone" [http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/365?x-t=book.view] . It was eventually published by O'Reilly, though a digital catalog related to the text was published online [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/oreilly_pr.html] .
ee also
*History of the Internet
*"Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog."
*"Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks"
References
*Krol, Ed. " The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet." 25 August 1987
External links
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/39 e-text of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet] at Project Gutenberg
* [http://www.textfiles.com/internet/hitchhik.gui 1987 Plain text version, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet]
* [http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~mgr/404/burks/internet/rfcs/rfcs/18/rfc1118.htm Updated 1989 Plain text version, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet]
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