Example sentences for: hafner

How can you use “hafner” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • There is merit to Hafner and Lyon's narrowly focused approach.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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