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History of the Internet: Internet for Historians - http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html
This overview by Richard T. Griffiths covers the development of computers, ArpaNet, email, search engines and Basic Net Data. |
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The Morris Internet Worm - http://www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/worm.html
Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm. |
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Paul Graham - What the Bubble Got Right - http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html
Essay derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004. Discusses the dot-com bubble and lasting lessons learned from it. |
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From Wartime Tool to the Fish Cam - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-1/inet-history.html
Scott Ruthfield explores the beginnings of the Internet, development of IMPs and packet-switching, ARPAnet, TCP/IP, and NSFNet, with references. |
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World-Wide Web: Origins And Beyond - http://www.zeltser.com/web-history/
Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu. |
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Net.Wars - http://www.nyupress.org/netwars/
Online book by Wendy M. Grossman. Observations on the growth of the Internet and corresponding controversies surrounding it. |
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The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History - http://www.vissing.dk/inthist.html
Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet. |
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1971 Prediction of the Web/Telesphere - http://www.vcn.bc.ca/web-prophet/
The cyberspace concept was described (and referred to as "telepresence") in the 108pp book "Man in the Telesphere". The complete text is now provided on-line. |
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SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays - http://searchenginewatch.com/3071951
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. |
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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/80sBBS/ - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/80sBBS/
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. |