18 - Histoire de l’Internet, l’Internet dans l’histoire
Pascal GRISET, Valérie SCHAFER
« Make the pig fly ! » : the Inria, its researchers and the Internet from the 1970s to the 1990s
Le Temps des médias n°18, Printemps 2012, p. 41-52.>> Acheter cet article sur CAIRN
This article demonstrates the crucial importance of the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in Internet history at a national and European level, at a time when the « network of networks» was still not appropriated by the general public. At a first stage, its role is very much connected to individual actions of researchers, experts, and scientific players. The part played by informal processes and individual initiatives shows the blurred borders between the world of producers of innovations and that of “users”, and also the many creative tensions which ran across the INRIA.
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