Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. <I>Where Wizards Stay Up Late</I> is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. <P>In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, <I>Where Wizards Stay Up Late</I> captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.