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(companion website to the new book by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon)
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This site grew from an embarrassment of riches. In the course of researching the book, we found ourselves in possession of dozens of diagrams, hand-drawn sketches and maps, photographs and technical papers--the original work of the earliest network pioneers. But we were able to put just a fraction of it all into the book. And while the book may be the perfect medium for telling a good story, the Web is the perfect venue for much of the primary source material behind it: the original diagrams that Larry Roberts sketched out while designing the very first ARPA network; the photo of the very first IMP-Host interface; the earliest network maps. Also, the collaborative nature of the building of cyberspace made us want to make a page rich with links to others. In print, a bibliography does some of that work. But the Web brings those references to life. This site is in its infancy. We plan to continue adding to it, and we hope that it will become a central repository for information concerning the origins of the Net. We welcome contributions and recommendations for new links. Please email your suggestions and contributions to: wizards@construct.net.

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