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Perhaps the greatest mystery in the history of the Internet is one about which Hafner and Lyon never bother to speculate--how and why the Pentagon, at the height of the backlash against the Vietnam War, was persuaded to grant a bunch of longhaired, Tolkien-reading grad students huge sums of money, without insisting on oversight.
Hafner and Lyon tell the story of how two scientists, Paul Baran in America and Donald Davies in England, arrived independently at the notion of packet switching.
Instead, as Lyon and Hafner show, the Net was built because the federal government needed a way for all the incompatible computers being used for government research to communicate with each other.
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, authors of Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet , dedicate their book to him, although that, unfortunately, is the grandest of their corrective gestures.
Hafner, a contributing editor at Newsweek and co-author with John Markoff of Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier , and Lyon, her husband and an assistant to the president of the University of Texas, have written an epic technological history.