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• Net Valley - Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.

  A Brief History of the Internet An anecdotal history by Walt Howe of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web. Includes a glossary of terms. http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

  Brief History of the Internet Ross Shannon provides an overview of the Internet's origins, from ARPANET and email to the Web. Includes a breakdown of the components that make up the Internet. http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/historyofthenet.html

  Community Memory Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet. http://memex.org/community-memory.html

  History of the Internet: Internet for Historians This overview by Richard T. Griffiths covers the development of computers, ArpaNet, email, search engines and Basic Net Data. http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html

  The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet. http://www.vissing.dk/inthist.html

  Internet Society: A Brief History of the Internet An authoritative history, written by some of those who were most closely associated with its creation and development. http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

  Internet Society: Internet Histories A list of links to resources. http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

  The Morris Internet Worm Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm. http://www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/worm.html

  NetHistory Chris Condon's informal history of BITNET and the Internet. Includes early net publications. http://nethistory.dumbentia.com/

  Netizens Netbook Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work. http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/

  1971 Prediction of the Web/Telesphere 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. http://www.vcn.bc.ca/web-prophet/

  80s BBS 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. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/80sBBS/

  The Story of the PING Program Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss. http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html

  The World Wide Web History Project A collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking. http://www.webhistory.org/

  World Wide Web Journal Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of 1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings. http://www.w3j.com/

  World-Wide Web: Origins And Beyond Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu. http://www.zeltser.com/web-history/

  Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web Yahoo!'s picks of the top 100 moments from the first 10 years of the Internet. Inspired by 10x10 by Jonathan Harris. http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

  Paul Graham - What the Bubble Got Right Essay derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004. Discusses the dot-com bubble and lasting lessons learned from it. (September, 2004) http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html

  SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays 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. (September 9, 2003) http://searchenginewatch.com/3071951

  Net.Wars Online book by Wendy M. Grossman. Observations on the growth of the Internet and corresponding controversies surrounding it. (1997) http://www.nyupress.org/netwars/

  From Wartime Tool to the Fish Cam Scott Ruthfield explores the beginnings of the Internet, development of IMPs and packet-switching, ARPAnet, TCP/IP, and NSFNet, with references. (September, 1995) http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-1/inet-history.html

  A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN. (April, 1995) http://ben.home.cern.ch/ben/TCPHIST.html

  The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services An early New York Times article on the Internet. (February 28, 1993) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DC1239F93BA15751C0A965958260