History

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

» 1971 Prediction of the Web/Telesphere
   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.

   
   http://www.vcn.bc.ca/web-prophet/

» 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.

   
   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/80sBBS/

» 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.

   
   http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

» A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN
   Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN.

   
   http://ben.home.cern.ch/ben/TCPHIST.html

» 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.

   
   http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/historyofthenet.html

» Community Memory
   Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.

   
   http://memex.org/community-memory.html

» 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.

   
   http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-1/inet-history.html

» 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.

   
   http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html

» History of the Web Beginning at CERN
   Cheryl Gribble gives a clear outline with bibliography and links to related sites.

   
   http://www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.asp

» 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.

   
   http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

» Internet Society: Internet Histories
   A list of links to resources.

   
   http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

» Net.Wars
   Online book by Wendy M. Grossman. Observations on the growth of the Internet and corresponding controversies surrounding it.

   
   http://www.nyupress.org/netwars/

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

   
   http://nethistory.dumbentia.com/

» Netizens Netbook
   Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.

   
   http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/

» 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.

   
   http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html

» 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.

   
   http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3071951

» The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services
   An early New York Times article on the Internet.

   
   http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DC1239F93BA15751C0A965958260

» The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History
   Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.

   
   http://www.vissing.dk/inthist.html

» The Morris Internet Worm
   Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm.

   
   http://www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/worm.html

» The Story of the PING Program
   Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss.

   
   http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html

» 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.

   
   http://www.webhistory.org/

» 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.

   
   http://www.w3j.com/

» 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.

   
   http://www.zeltser.com/web-history/

» Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web
   Yahoo!'s picks of the top 100 moments from the first 10 years of the Internet. Inspired by 10x10 by Jonathan Harris.

   
   http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/