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I'd honestly recommend that people just pick up a copy of and devote some time getting through Andrew S. Tanenbaum and David J. Wetherall's Computer Networks.
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
I'd honestly recommend that people just pick up a copy of and devote some time getting through Andrew S. Tanenbaum and David J. Wetherall's Computer Networks.
- dayjah 11y agoI'd also recommend "How the world was one" ( http://www.amazon.com/How-World-Was-Arthur-Clarke/dp/0553074407 http://www.amazon.com/How-World-Was-Arthur-Clarke/dp/0553074... ) It does an astonishingly good job of describing how networks evolved and why the function as they do today (as of mid-90's - not much has changed AFAICT).
- danso 11y agoJust bought a used paperback version from Amazon, thanks!
- m-app 11y agoAlso, Tubes by Andrew Blum to get a taste of the physical part of the Internet. (http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-A-Journey-Center-Internet/dp/0061994952 http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-A-Journey-Center-Internet/dp/006...)
- draker 11y agoAny recommendations that aren't textbooks? Even the Kindle version of that book is $100.
- irl_zebra 11y agoSo I just copy/pasted the book recommendation into search, and the first result was a pdf of the entire book hosted on an edu server. Forgive my ignorance, but would this be a pirated copy or something? This often happens when I'm searching for book recommendations like this and I just assumed older versions were pushed out into the public domain or something.