Accounts of the origins and development of the Internet. Archived material from the Internet's past.
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- Community Memory Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Net Valley Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.
- 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.
- Netizens Netbook Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.
- The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.
- The Morris Internet Worm Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm.
- A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN.
- The Story of the PING Program Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss.
- 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.
- 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.
- Internet Society: Internet Histories A list of links to resources.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services An early New York Times article on the Internet.
- 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.