Knowledge: history
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- Community Memory
http://memex.org/community-memory.html - Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.
- The Role of Government in the Evolution of the Internet
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/newpath/chap2.html - Robet E. Kahn's contribution to "Revolution in the U.S. Information Structure", published in 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences.
- From Wartime Tool to the Fish Cam
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-1/inet-history.html - Scott Ruthfield explores the beginnings of the Internet, development of IMPs and packet-switching, ARPAnet, TCP/IP, and NSFNet, with references.
- NetHistory
http://nethistory.dumbentia.com/ - Chris Condon's informal history of BITNET and the Internet. Includes early net publications.
- A Brief History of the Internet
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html - An anecdotal history by Walt Howe of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web. Includes a glossary of terms.
- History of the Internet: Internet for Historians
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html - This overview by Richard T. Griffiths covers the development of computers, ArpaNet, email, search engines and Basic Net Data.
- 80s BBS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/80sBBS/ - 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.
- Brief History of the Internet
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/historyofthenet.html - 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.
- Net Valley
http://www.netvalley.com/ - Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.
- History of the Internet
http://nethistory.hot-1000.com/ - Dr. Rognar Ismaellsen covers the Web, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.
- World Wide Web Journal
http://www.w3j.com/ - Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of 1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings.
- Netizens Netbook
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ - Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.
- History of the Web Beginning at CERN
http://www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.asp - Cheryl Gribble gives a clear outline with bibliography and links to related sites.
- The World Wide Web History Project
http://www.webhistory.org/ - A collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking.
- The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History
http://www.vissing.dk/inthist.html - Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.
- A Tour of the Worm
http://world.std.com/~franl/worm.html - 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.
- The Morris Internet Worm
http://www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/worm.html - Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm.
- NetHistory
http://nethistory.urldir.com/ - A directory of sites on the history of the Internet, Usenet, Web, email and related topics.
- A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN
http://ben.home.cern.ch/ben/TCPHIST.html - Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN.
- The Story of the PING Program
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html - Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss.
- Paul Graham - What the Bubble Got Right
http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html - Essay derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004. Discusses the dot-com bubble and lasting lessons learned from it.
- Internet Society: A Brief History of the Internet
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml - An authoritative history, written by some of those who were most closely associated with its creation and development.
- Internet Society: Internet Histories
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/ - A list of links to resources.
- Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web
http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ - Yahoo!'s picks of the top 100 moments from the first 10 years of the Internet. Inspired by 10x10 by Jonathan Harris.
- World-Wide Web: Origins And Beyond
http://www.zeltser.com/web-history/ - Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu.
- SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3071951 - 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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