ah yes — the book that i’m reading about the creation of the internet is Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins…
another book that i just finished was The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable… — I highly recommend this book as well — it tells the story of the introduction of the telegraph in the mid 19th century, and relates the extraordinary similarities to the evolution of the Internet (tons of hype, necessity for communication protocols, harbingers of world peace, etc. etc.) — is a quick read and very interesting