Read Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon’s Where Wizards Stay Up Late on the
origins of the Internet and you’ll offer thanks to all the people whose hard
work has made the Web fairly easy to use
(Review, 24 August 1996, p42). Then you
notice all the acronyms—where’s Victor Borge and his phonetic punctuation
when we need him? Out in paperback in Britain in September, Simon &
Schuster, £8.99/$13, ISBN 0684832674.
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