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Cybertelecom
Federal Internet Law & Policy
An Educational Project
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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
- Marc Andreessen
- Leo Beranek, Roots of the Internet; A Personal History
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Vint Cerf
- David Clark
- Smart Computing, Wesley Clark
- CREN History
- David Farber
- Defense Information Systems Agency History
- Farooq Hussain - Archive of the Commercial Internet eXchange
- Federal Networking Council Archive at NITRD
- IETF Editors, RFC 2555, 30 Years of RFCs (April 7, 1999)
- Robert Kahn Bio, CNRI
- Leonard Kleinrock,
- Merit Network History
- National Science Foundation History
- NYSERnet History
- MA Padlipsky, And They Argued All Night
- Jon Postel
- Larry Roberts
- Ray Tomlinson, The First Network Email
- Tom Van Vleck Home Page
- W3C A Little History of the World Wide Web
- Leiner, Cerf, Clark, Kahn, Kleinrock, Lynch, Postel, Roberts, Wolff, A Brief History of the Internet, ISOC
Papers
- 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)
- 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
- History of the Internet
- Internet Pioneers
- History of the Internet, Internet for Historians (and just about everyone else) By Richard T. Griffiths
- Earthlink History
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Living Internet
- TCP/IP
- Archive.org Way Back Machine
- 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)
Audio Video
Links
Books
- Peter Salus,
- L. Kleinrock, Queueing Systems: Vol II, Computer Applications, John Wiley and Sons (New York), 1976 ("First book on the Internet")
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late
: The Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
- 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
- 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)
- No Credit Where It's Due, WIRED NEWS Mar 11, 1999
- End of the Ride, TIME Magazine Oct 17, 1983
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