- 80s BBS
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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://groups.yahoo.com/group/80sBBS/
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- A Brief History of the Internet
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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
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- A Brief History of the Internet
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Microsoft explains the origins of the web in ArpaNet, the contribution of Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Consortium and domain names.
http://www.microsoft.com/insider/guide/history.asp
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- A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN
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Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN.
http://ben.home.cern.ch/ben/TCPHIST.html
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- Brief History of the Internet
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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
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- From Wartime Tool to the Fish Cam
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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
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- History of the Web Beginning at CERN
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Cheryl Gribble gives a clear outline with bibliography and links to related sites.
http://www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.asp
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- Internet Society: A Brief History of the Internet
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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
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- Merit: History
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Merit explains how it managed and re-engineered the NSFNET Backbone.
http://www.merit.edu/home/about/history.html
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- Net Valley
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Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.
http://www.netvalley.com/
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- NetHistory
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Chris Condon's informal history of BITNET and the Internet. Includes early net publications.
http://nethistory.dumbentia.com/
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- NetHistory
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A directory of sites on the history of the Internet, Usenet, Web, email and related topics.
http://nethistory.urldir.com/
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- Netizens Netbook
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Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
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- Paul Graham - What the Bubble Got Right
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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
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- The History of 404
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The story behind HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found, and Room 404 at CERN. Wait for the real page to load.
http://www.room404.com/
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- The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History
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Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.
http://www.vissing.dk/inthist.html
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- The Morris Internet Worm
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Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm.
http://www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/worm.html
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- A Tour of the Worm
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.
http://world.std.com/%7Efranl/worm.html
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- Community Memory
Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.
http://memex.org/community-memory.html
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- History of the Internet
Dr. Rognar Ismaellsen covers the Web, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.
http://nethistory.hot-1000.com/
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- 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
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- Internet Society: Internet Histories
A list of links to resources.
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/
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- OrangePeel.com: History of the Internet
Steven Hartley covers topics such as IMP, Packet Switching, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.
http://www.orangepeel.com/newOP/en/internet/shortHistory.php
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- 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/searchday/article.php/3071951
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- The Role of Government in the Evolution of the Internet
Robet E. Kahn's contribution to "Revolution in the U.S. Information Structure", published in 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/newpath/chap2.html
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