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The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet
Engineering Task Force
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A Brief History of the Internet
by those who made the history,
including Barry M. Leiner , Vinton G. Cerf , David D. Clark, Robert E.
Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Lawrence G.
Roberts, Stephen Wolff. A
Spanish-language translation
is also available.
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Brief History of the Internet
Excellent narrative of the
Internet and Related Networks by Vint Cerf.
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Hobbes' Internet Timeline
An Internet timeline
highlighting some of the key events and technologies which helped shape
the Internet as we know it today.
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Internetology
Contains a snapshot of worldwide connectivity every 6 months from
November 1993 to May 1997.
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PBS Life on the Internet Timeline
Site also includes links,
stories, and a beginners guide to the Internet.
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PBS's Nerds 2.0.1
A follow-up to the original...
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History of the IETF/ISOC relationship
By Vint Cerf, July 1995.
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Internet History Mail List
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| Archive of early Internet and BITNET
online publications
NetHistory will give you a
feeling for what it was like in the pioneering days of BITNET and the
Internet. Hopefully, you will come to understand the early Internet
experience.
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Baran's classic RAND papers
on packet-switching from the early 60's
Publications in the On Distributed Communications Series.
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The World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future
by Tim Berners-Lee, Director of
the World Wide Web Consortium and a principal research scientist at the
Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Computers: History and Development
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A Little History of the World Wide Web
From W3C, this document dates
from 1995 and has not been updated. The history is of course still valid
though not up to date. Some links may not work. This is a monthly
history list from 1980 to October 1995.
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Keith Lynch's Timeline of net related terms,
concepts, stories, and people
Timeline from June 1975 to February 1998 showing when terms, concepts,
stories, and people were first mentioned.
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History and Development of the Internet: a
Timeline
by Rhonda Davila. Illustrates a chronology of notable events that led to
the Internet’s creation and concludes with the thirtieth anniversary of
the ARPANET experiment.
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A Brief History of the Internet
by Walt Howe, Manager of the
Delphi Navigating the Net and Publishing on the Web Forums. (Last
updated October 24, 1998)
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Internet & World Wide Web History
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History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and
Crossroads of Internet History by Gregory R. Gromov
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USENET History
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Internet for Historians, History of the Internet
(Outline in English)
History of the net, designed for non-experts, which also hopes to give
some of the concepts necessary to understand how the Net works. Also
includes a history of the Web and electronic mail.
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| A German History of the Internet (in
German;
in English)
This resource from David Goldstein of nic.at traces general Internet
development worldwide with particular emphasis on its growth in Austria,
Germany and central Europe.
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The Start of the Internet at UCLA
Information on early Internet development efforts at the University of
California - Los Angeles.
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| The
Living Internet
Examines the history of the Internet, Web, Email, Usenet, and more,
using an unique step-by-step approach.
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A History of the Internet
A multilingual multimedia History of the Internet as seen from the
Finnish University and Research Network.
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A Brief History of the Internet in Australia,
Version 3.1 of 5 May 2001 by Roger Clarke
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