"This book is an impassioned attempt to rescue the Internet from the condescension of posterity, to celebrate the engineers and scientists who created it and to explain the values and ideas that drove them. Its heroes are the people who laid the foundations of the post-modern world - from visionaries like Joseph Licklider, Robert Taylor, Douglas Engelbart, Norbert Wiener, Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson - to the engineers - Paul Baran, Donald Davies, Larry Roberts, Bob Kahn, Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee - who implemented their dreams in hardware and software."--BOOK JACKET.