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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Net Valley - http://www.netvalley.com/
Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DC1239F93BA15751C0A965958260
An early New York Times article on the Internet. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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Netizens Netbook - http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work. |