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Internet History Reference

Primary Documents

• Proposal: Interface Message Processors for the ARPA Computer Network, RFQ No. DAHC15 69 Q 0002, BBN Proposal No. IMP P69-IST-5 (Sept. 6, 1968)

In their own words

• Advanced Network & Services, Inc. History
• Association for Progressive Communications | History
• Marc Andreessen
• Paul Baran
  • Stewart Brand, Founding Fathers (Paul Baran Interview), WIRED Mar 2001
• Bboard Thread about Changing the Arpanet Protocol from NCP to TCP/IP
• Leo Beranek, Roots of the Internet; A Personal History
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Vint Cerf
  • Internet History 
  • Vint Cerf, How the Internet Came to Be, NetValley Nov 20, 2006
  • IETF RFC 1160, Internet Activities Board, May 1990
  • Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Vint Cert, Interviewed by Judy O'Neil, Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories (April 24, 1990) [Cerf, Oral History 1990]
    • An interview with Vinton Cerf, Conducted by Judy O'Neill on 24 April 1990 (Charles Babbage Institute)
  • Computer Communications Networking: Global Infrastructure for the 21st Century 1995
  • Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication IEEE 1974
• CERFNet History (June 29, 1992)
• David Clark
  • David D. Clark, The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols, COMPUTER COMM. REV., Aug. 1988
• Smart Computing, Wesley Clark
• CREN History
• Steve Crocker, How the Internet Got its Rules, NY Times (Apr. 6, 2009) (on the 40th anniversary of RFC # 1)
  • Where did the Internet Really Come From?, TechPresident (August 3, 2012)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, About, History
• David Farber
• Defense Information Systems Agency History (DISA) (DCA)
• Federal Networking Council Archive at NITRD
• Farooq Hussain - Archive of the Commercial Internet eXchange
  • Farooq Hussain, Historic Role of the Commercial Internet eXchange Rounter and Its Impact on the Development of Internet eXchange Points (IXs) (Oct. 2003)
• Ronda Hauben, Chapter 8: The Birth and Development of the ARPANET
• Frank Heart, An Interview conducted by Judy O'Neil, 13 March 1990 Charles Babbage Institute
• IETF Editors, RFC 2555, 30 Years of RFCs (April 7, 1999)
• Dennis M. Jennings, Lawrence H. Landweber, Ira H. Fuchs, David J. Farber, W. Richards Adrion, Computer Networking for Scientists, Science vol. 231, p. 943 (1986)
• Robert Kahn Bio, CNRI
  • Robert E Kahn, The Role of the Government in the Evolution of the Internet , Revolution in the US Information Infrastructure (National Academy Press 1994)
• Leonard Kleinrock,
  • Information Flow in Large Communication Nets 1961
  • The History of the Internet
  • Oral History Interview with Leonard Kleinrock, Charles Babbage Institute, 1990
  • The Birth of the Internet: IMP1: The First Node on the ARPANet (1996)
• An Interview with Stephen Lukasik, Conducted by Judy O'Neil, 17 October 1991, Charles Babbage Institute
• J.C.R. Licklider
  • J. C. R. Licklider, OH 150. Oral history interview by William Aspray and Arthur L. Norberg, 28 October 1988, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107436
• J. C. R. Licklider and Welden E. Clark. 1962. On-line man-computer communication. In Proceedings of the May 1-3, 1962, spring joint computer conference (AIEE-IRE '62 (Spring)). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 113-128. DOI=10.1145/1460833.1460847 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1460833.1460847
• In Memoriam: J.C.R. Licklider 1915 - 1990, Digital (August 7, 1990)
• Milo Medin, Vice President, Access Services, Google, What I Saw at the Revolution (or) An Abridged History of the Internet, Presented at NANOG June 16th, 2011
• Merit Network History
• National Science Foundation History
• NIST: Arthur Oldehoeft, Foundations of a Security Policy for Use of the National Research and Educational Network, NIST February 1992
• NYSERnet History
• MA Padlipsky, And They Argued All Night
• Jon Postel
  • J Reynolds, J Postel, The Request for Comments Reference Guide, NWG RFC 1000 (Aug. 1987)
• Larry Roberts
  • Stuart L. Mathison, Lawrence G. Roberts, and Philip M. Walker, The History of Telenet and Commercialization of Packet Switching in the U.S., IEEE Communications Magazine, p. 28 (May 2012).
  • Internet Chronology 1999
  • Internet Chronology 
  • Packet.CC
  • The ARPANET and Computer Networks, Packet.CC (May 1995)
  • ARPANET History, Slides (Sept 2005)
  • Lawrence G. Roberts and Barry D. Wessler, Computer Network Development to Achieve Resource Sharing, in Proceedings of AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference (AFIPS PRess 1970).
  • Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communications, June 1967
  • Marill, T. and Roberts, L. G. , "Toward a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers," Proc. FJCC (1966).
• Robert Taylor
  • John Markoff, An Internet Pioneer Ponders the Next Revolution, NYT (Dec. 20, 1999) (an interview with Robert Taylor)
• RAND Corporation History and Mission
  • Paul Baran and the Origins of the Internet
• Ray Tomlinson, The First Network Email
• Tom Van Vleck Home Page
• W3C A Little History of the World Wide Web
• An Interview with David Walden, Conducted by Judy O'Neill on 6 February 1990, Cambridge, MA (Charles Babbage Institute)
• Leiner, Cerf, Clark, Kahn, Kleinrock, Lynch, Postel, Roberts, Wolff, A Brief History of the Internet, ISOC

Papers / Links

• Cheryl Gribble, ARPA: The Early Days of ARPA, Forerunner of the Internet Hitmill (Feb. 2007)
• Ronda Hauben, ARPA's 50th Anniversary and the Internet: a Model for Basic Research Futurezone
• Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy , FTC Staff Report, (June 2007)
• This Month in History, Oct. 29, 1969 . a crash into the future , UCLA History Project
• Cliff Figallo and Gail Ann Williams, A Timeline of the First Ten Years of The WELL (1995)
• Apollo to the Moon - Reference Timeline , Smithsonian Institute National Air and Space Museum
• 1971-1997: A Nation Goes Online: Canada's Internet History (372K PDF)

Internet Wayback Machine

• The Past and Future History of the Internet Feb 1997 ACM 
• The Almanac, Building the Internet: Bob Taylor... (Oct. 2000)
• Dummies: Knowing the Origin of the Internet
• Donnalyn Frey & Rick Adams, A Directory of Electronic Mail !%@:: (1994 O'Reilly & Associatiates)
• History of the Internet 
• Internet Pioneers 
• History of the Internet, Internet for Historians (and just about everyone else) By Richard T. Griffiths
• Earthlink History
• Jeffrey A. Hart et al., The Building of the Internet, 16 TELECOMM. POL’Y 666, 673-75 (1992).
• A Sort of History of Internet Dennis Fazio
• Great Engineering Achievements in the Twentieth Century: Internet Timeline
• IBM: The History of IBM 
• Michael Hauben, History of ARPANET, Behind the Net - The untold history of the ARPANET, Or - The "Open" History of the ARPANET/Internet
• ISOC Internet History
• Ideological and Policy Origins of the Internet, 1957-1969 Andrew L. Russell
• Hobbes' Internet Timeline
• Initiating the ARPANET
• Peggy M. Karp, Origin, Development and Current Status of the ARPA Network, in SEVENTH ANNUAL IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, DIGEST PAPERS 49-52 (1973)
• Prof. Randy Katz, History of Communications Infrastructures
• Gary Kessler, IETF - History, Background, and Role in Todays Internet (1996)
• A Lifetime of Pursuit: From a Biographical Sketch of Douglas C Engelbart by Christina Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute 2003
• Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb, An Oral History of the Internet, Vanity Fair (July 2008)
• PBS Life on the Internet
• PBS Triumph of the Nerds
• TCMHC: History of the Internet (excellent)
• Merit's History: The NSFNET Backbone Project, 1987 - 1995
• MIDS Timeline of Network History
• NSF and the Internet An Overview
• NSF:  Nifty 50: The Internet
• National Academy of Engineering, Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century: Internet
• “The Size and Growth of the Internet” by Coffman, K.G. and Odlyzko, A.M. DIMACS Technical Report 99-11, February 1999
  
• Living Internet
  • NSFNET
  • Lawrence Roberts
  • TCP/IP
• TCP/IP
• Archive.org Way Back Machine
• Mitch Waldrop, DARPA and the Internet Revolution, p. 78 DARPA (Aug. 7, 2008)
• Richard Wiggins, Al Gore and the Creation of the Internet, First Monday, Sept 2000
• Stewart Brand, Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums, Rolling Stone (Dec. 1972)
• UUNET - Company History, Funding Universe

Audio Video

• Webcast: 10 Years of Corporate Change in the NANOG & IP Backbone Community, NANOG 3/26/2004
• Webcast: A Short History of the Internet, NANOG 3/26/2004
• Webcast: A History of Internet Exchanges (or, Lessons Learned - the Hard Way), NANOG 3/26/2004
• Scott Bradner, A Short History of the Internet, NANOG 2004

Books

• Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (MIT Press 1999)
• Amy Slaton and Janet Abbate, The Hidden Lives of Standards in Technologies of Power (MIT Press Year )
• Peter Salus,
  • The ARPANET Sourcebook: The Unpublished Foundations of the Internet
  • Casting the Net: From ARPANet to Internet and Beyond
• L. Kleinrock, Queueing Systems: Vol II, Computer Applications, John Wiley and Sons (New York), 1976 ("First book on the Internet")
• Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late (Simon & Schuster 1998)
• Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date by Robert X. Cringely
• Nerds 2.0.1 : A Brief History of the Internet by Stephen Segaller (TV Books 1998)
• Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ulitmate Desitiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee
• A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime by John Naughton
• Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business by Robert H. Reid
• How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web by Robert Cailliau, James Gillies

News

• Six myths about the Internet, Virulent Word of Mouse 4/11/2011
• ARPAnet - the team behind the internet, Arlington County 6/15/2011
• Internet2 turns 15. Has it delivered on its promise?, Internet2 4/11/2011
• ARPANET Created in Arlington on May 17, 2011, bArlington 5/20/2011
• Gary Chapman, Internet Ethicist, Dies at 58, NYT 12/22/2010
• NSFnet celebrates 20 years of Internet obscurity, inspiration, Merit 7/3/2008
• Timeline: A brief history of the x86 microprocessor, CW 6/6/2008
• From Sputnik to the Internet, CW 10/2/2007
• Happy Birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet) , Computer World (Sept 24, 2007)
• Three Cheers for the 'Sufficient' Internet, Internet News 10/2/2007
• The Internet at 35: Still evolving, CNN 9/7/2004
• Larry Roberts: He Made the Net Work, Business Week Sept 27, 2004
• FCC Introduces New Exhibit on the History of the Internet, Govt Tech 6/14/2004
• Another Year And The Internet Can Legally Drink, Info Week 1/2/03
• Happy Birthday, Dear Internet, Wired 1/2/03
• E-Mail Turns 30, NYT 12/7/01
• H@ppy Bithday to you, BBC Oct 8 2001 (Email)
• Sharon Guadin, The Internet at 30, NW Fusion (Sept 20, 1999)
• John Markoff, An Internet Pioneer Ponders the Next Revolution, NYT (Dec. 20, 1999) (an interview with Robert Taylor)
• No Credit Where It's Due, WIRED NEWS Mar 11, 1999
• John Adam, How Cybergeniuses Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf Turned a Pentagon Project into the Internet and Connected the World, WASH. MAG, Nov. 1996
• Brook Meeks, CWD Changes in the Wind at EFF, Cyberwire Dispatch Dec. 20, 1994
• End of the Ride, TIME Magazine Oct 17, 1983

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