Tubes A Journey to the Center of the Internet

Name: Tubes A Journey to the Center of the Internet
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ISBN: 9780061994951

ISBN-10: 0061994952

ISBN-13: 9780061994951

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Authors: Andrew Blum

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When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives—and the broader scheme of human culture—can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now. In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet's physical infrastructure and flips on the lights, revealing an utterly fresh look at the online world we think we know. It is a shockingly tactile realm of unmarked compounds, populated by a special caste…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Prologue


The Hop


A Network of Networks


Only Connect


The Whole Internet


Cities of Light


The Longest Tubes


Where Data Sleeps


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index