Cybertelecom Federal Internet Law & Policy An Educational Project

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
  • Internet History 
  • Vint Cerf, How the Internet Came to Be, NetValley Nov 20, 2006
  • IETF RFC 1160, Internet Activities Board, May 1990
  • Computer Communications Networking: Global Infrastructure for the 21st Century 1995
  • Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication IEEE 1974
• David Clark
  • David D. Clark, The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols, COMPUTER COMM. REV., Aug. 1988
• 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,
  • Information Flow in Large Communication Nets 1961
  • The History of the Internet
  • Oral History Interview with Leonard Kleinrock, Charles Babbage Institute, 1990
• Merit Network History
• National Science Foundation History
• NYSERnet History
• MA Padlipsky, And They Argued All Night
• Jon Postel
• Larry Roberts
  • Internet Chronology 1999
  • Internet Chronology 
  • Packet.CC
  • The ARPANET and Computer Networks, Packet.CC (May 1995)
• 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)

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
• 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
  • Living Internet: NSFNET
• 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

• 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

Links

• Living Internet
  • Lawrence Roberts

Books

• 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")
• 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