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Accounts of the origins and development of the Internet. Archived material from the Internet's past.

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• 1971 Prediction of the Web/Telesphere

  http://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

  http://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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Community Memory

  http://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

  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.

• 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.

• Net Valley

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

• Netizens Netbook

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

• 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.

• SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays

  http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064538/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.

• The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services

  http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/28/business/the-executive-computer-a-web-of-networks-an-abundance-of-services.html
  An early New York Times article on the Internet.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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