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Net
Valley *Cool Site* - Explores
the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant
companies and Silicon Valley history.
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A Brief History of the Internet - An anecdotal
history by Walt Howe of the people and communities that brought
about the Internet and the Web. Includes a glossary of
terms.
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A Brief History of the Internet - Microsoft
explains the origins of the web in ArpaNet, the contribution of
Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Consortium and domain
names.
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Brief History of the Internet - Ross Shannon
provides an overview of the Internet's origins, from ARPANET and
email to the Web. Includes a breakdown of the components that make
up the Internet.
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Community Memory - Archive of postings to this
discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.
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The History of
404 - The story behind HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found, and Room
404 at CERN. Wait for the real page to load.
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History of the Internet - Dr. Rognar Ismaellsen
covers the Web, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.
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History of the Internet: Internet for Historians
- This overview by Richard T. Griffiths covers the development of
computers, ArpaNet, email, search engines and Basic Net
Data.
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The History of the Net - A thesis with
bibliography written in 1993 by Henry Edward Hardy.
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History of the Web Beginning at CERN - Cheryl
Gribble gives a clear outline with bibliography and links to
related sites.
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The
Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History -
Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of
the Internet.
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Internet Society: A Brief History of the
Internet - An authoritative history, written by some of those
who were most closely associated with its creation and
development.
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Merit: History - Merit explains how it managed
and re-engineered the NSFNET Backbone.
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The Morris Internet Worm - Charles Schmidt and
Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet
worm.
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NetHistory - A directory of sites on the history
of the Internet, Usenet, Web, email and related topics.
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NetHistory - Chris Condon's informal history of
BITNET and the Internet. Includes early net publications.
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Netizens Netbook - Anthology of the history of
Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as
theoretical work.
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OrangePeel.com: History of the Internet - Steven
Hartley covers topics such as IMP, Packet Switching, ARPAnet, and
TCP/IP.
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The Role of Government in the Evolution of the
Internet - Robet E. Kahn's contribution to "Revolution in the
U.S. Information Structure", published in 1994 by the National
Academy of Sciences.
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80s BBS - Yahoo group dedicated to the
preservation of the history of the online world in the days before
the Web (pre-1990). Text files, old buffer dumps, BBS discussions,
buffers, or anything related to this era is welcome.
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Short History of the Internet - Science fiction
author Bruce Sterling recounts the early history of ARPAnet and
the Internet in this 1993 article.
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The
Story of the PING Program - Brief article about this network
utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss.
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A Tour of the Worm - Donn Seeley tells the story
of the Internet Worm of 1988 and how it effectively shut down the
Internet. Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Technical Conference,
San Diego, California, January 1989.
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The World
Wide Web History Project - A collaborative effort to record
and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in
hypermedia and networking.
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World Wide Web
Journal - Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of
1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World
Wide Web Conference Proceedings.
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World-Wide
Web: Origins And Beyond - Lenny Zeltser describes some of the
historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other
forms of hypertext such as Xanadu.
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Paul Graham - What the Bubble Got Right - Essay
derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004. Discusses the dot-com
bubble and lasting lessons learned from it.
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SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays -
It's been a little more than ten years ago that the first web
search engines were born. Chris Sherman charts the dates starting
with WWW Wanderer in 1993.
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From Wartime Tool to the Fish Cam - Scott
Ruthfield explores the beginnings of the Internet, development of
IMPs and packet-switching, ARPAnet, TCP/IP, and NSFNet, with
references.
- A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN -
Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN.
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