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• Computers: History  (380)

Net Valley     www.netvalley.com Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.

A Brief History of the Internet  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.

Brief History of the Internet  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.

Community Memory  memex.org/community-memory.html Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.

History of the Internet: Internet for Historians  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.

History of the Web Beginning at CERN  www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.asp Cheryl Gribble gives a clear outline with bibliography and links to related sites.

The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History  www.vissing.dk/inthist.html Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.

Internet Society: A Brief History of the Internet  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  www.isoc.org/internet/history A list of links to resources.

The Morris Internet Worm  www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/worm.html Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm.

NetHistory  nethistory.dumbentia.com Chris Condon's informal history of BITNET and the Internet. Includes early net publications.

Netizens Netbook  www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.

1971 Prediction of the Web/Telesphere  www.vcn.bc.ca/web-prophet The cyberspace concept was described (and referred to as "telepresence") in the 108pp book "Man in the Telesphere". The complete text is now provided on-line.

80s BBS  tech.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.

The Story of the PING Program  ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss.

The World Wide Web History Project  www.webhistory.org A collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking.

World Wide Web Journal  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.

World-Wide Web: Origins And Beyond  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.

Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web  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.

Paul Graham - What the Bubble Got Right  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. (September, 2004)

SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays  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. (September 9, 2003)

Net.Wars  www.nyupress.org/netwars Online book by Wendy M. Grossman. Observations on the growth of the Internet and corresponding controversies surrounding it. (1997)

From Wartime Tool to the Fish Cam  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. (September, 1995)

A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN  ben.home.cern.ch/ben/TCPHIST.html Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN. (April, 1995)

The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services  query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DC1239F93BA15751C0A96595… An early New York Times article on the Internet. (February 28, 1993)