![]() ![]() Travelling around the world, the author was surprised to discover that “the Internet wasn’t a shadowy realm but a surprisingly open one.” Nearly everywhere he went, he was offered a tour by people happy to share their work and expertise (Google’s data center was the lone exception). From there, Blum visited the companies that form the Internet’s “backbone”: hubs of networked servers where billions of bits of data zip through every second. He traveled to UCLA to see one of the first networked computers and meet 75-year-old professor Leonard Kleinrock, one of the fathers of the Internet. Blum begins by chronicling the birth of the Internet in the late 1960s. Ted Stevens' much-ridiculed 2006 description of the Internet as "a series of tubes," this debut deftly combines history, travelogue and jargon-free technical explanations. ![]() ![]() When an errant squirrel disrupted his Internet connection, Wired correspondent Blum embarked on a journey to discover the roots and structure of the Internet. Captivating behind-the-scenes tour of how (and where) the Internet works. ![]()
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