How long does it take to read Inventing the Internet?
Janet Abbate
Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate takes about 4 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 268 pages, about 73,700 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate focuses on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. She unfolds an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users.
Subjects: Internet, History, Internet, social aspects, Computer networks, Computer engineering, Communications software
