"If You Build It, They Will Come": Lusk, Wyoming, and the Information Highway Imaginaire, 1989-1999.
Historians of the Internet have richly analyzed the overnment and academic origins of networked computing in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the early commercialization of the Internet. This work adds to the available histories by analyzing local Internet policy. This article examines Lusk, Wyoming'...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 236 - 257 |
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University of Texas Press
2015
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