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bawolff
on Nov 6, 2020
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In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)
Vernor Vinge is another good author in the category of people really into computers who write fiction (I remember one of his novels had a side plot about interplanatary usenet having routing failures)
lproven
on Nov 6, 2020
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It is _A Fire Upon the Deep_ and the interplanetary Usenet is a core plot point, IMHO.
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