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WHERE WIZARDS STAY UP LATE
(THE ORIGINS OF THE INTERNET)
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
A DF Books NERDs Release 
TOUCHSTONE Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Visit us on the World Wide Web: http://www.SimonSays.com  Copyright © 1996 by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.  First Touchstone Edition 1998 TOUCHSTONEand colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster Inc.  Includes index.  ISBN 0-684-87216-1 
To the memory of J. C. R. Licklider and to the memory of Cary Lu
 
Also by Katie Hafner 
The House at the Bridge: A Story of Modern Germany Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier(with John Markoff)  The Origins of the Internet Katie Hafnerand Matthew Lyon A TOUCHSTONE BOOK Published by Simon & Schuster
Contents
Prologue
1.The Fastest Million Dollars 2.A Block Here, Some Stones There 3.The Third University 4.Head Down in the Bits 5.Do It to It Truett6.Hacking Away and Hollering 7.E-Mail
8. A Rocket on Our HandsEpilogue Chapter Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
Los Alamos’ lights where wizards stay up late(Stay in the car, forget the gate)To save the world or end it, time will tell —James Merrill,“Under Libra: Weights and Measures,”from Braving the Elements
Prologue
September 1994
They came to Boston from as far away as London and Los Angeles, several dozen middle-aged men, reuniting for a fall weekend in 1994 to celebrate what they had done twenty-five years earlier. These were the scientists and engineers who had designed and built theARPANET, the computer network that revolutionized communications and gave rise to the global Internet. They had worked in relative obscurity in the 1960s; a number of them had been only graduate students when they made significant contributions to the network. Others had been mentors. Most of them had never gained much recognition for the achievement.
Bolt Beranek and Newman, a computer company based in Cambridge, had been their center of gravity, had employed many of them, had built and operated the original ARPA network, then slipped into relative obscurity as the Internet grew like a teeming city around its earliest neighborhood. Now, a quarter-century after installing the first network node, BBN had invited all of theARPANETpioneers to come together, hoping to heighten its own profile by throwing a lavish celebration marking the anniversary.
Many of those at the reunion hadn’t ............

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