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Re: a moment of silence

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Haas)
Fri Oct 15 09:55:31 1999

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:49:44 -0400
From: Jeffrey Haas <elezar@pfrc.org>
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On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:53:38AM +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> On this point, is anyone actively writing either a biography of Jon or
> of the "real" story of the Internet? By real, I personally mean
> without the self-congratulating summaries, like those of certain (now
> marketing) folk, of how visionary they were in the early days.

There is a nice book that is very readable by the public at large
on this topic.  I don't claim that it is complete and covers everything,
but it does okay:

Where Wizards Stay Up Late
by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

> Peter Galbavy

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Jeffrey Haas
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