Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005

Joel Shurkin is Sneddeden Chair in Journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775. He is author of Broken Genius: the Rise and Fall of William Shockley.

Nature 452(7187):p 533, April 3, 2008. | DOI: 10.1038/452533a

Fastidious history chronicles how a suburb of Washington DC became home to the Internet.