Histories of the Internet
43 45Email33Share163The following links offer a broad range of perspectives on the history of the Internet. The Internet Society cannot guarantee the historical or technical accuracy of all of the material presented, but we hope these resources will give you plenty of starting points for further research.
- IUKNOF Internet History Project
- The early days of the Internet in the United Kingdom. As a modest first step, individuals who played key roles in the creation and growth of the Internet in the UK are being invited to give presentations at UKNOF meetings.
- Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast
- A diverse collection of resources by Elon University and Pew Internet Project including concise historical information, current Internet governance discussions, and predictions about the future of the Internet.
- A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies
- By Alex Simonelis
- Who is Who in the Internet World (WiWiW.org)
- A perpetual archive devoted to Internet pioneers worldwide.
- Internet History and Growth (PPT: 1MB)
- Presentation by William Slater III - Chicago Chapter of the Internet Society
- 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.
- Interesting historical background to Internet governance issues by one of the Internet pioneers.
- Address by John Klensin to the opening of the IGF, Rio de Janeiro, 2007
- A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN
- By Ben Segal
- Net History
- A site dedicated to Internet history links, including Internet, email, web and other related history sources.
- Brief History of the Internet
- Excellent narrative of the Internet and Related Networks by Vint Cerf.
- Hobbes' Internet Timeline
- An Internet timeline highlighting some of the key events and technologies which helped shape the Internet as we know it today.
- Internetology
- Contains a snapshot of worldwide connectivity every 6 months from November 1993 to May 1997.
History of the Internet This is an in-depth researched article about the internet with accurate and updated data.
- ConneXions: The Interoperability report
- ConneXions was a monthly publication which ran from 1987-1996 focusing on computer interoperability, particularly the development of networking protocols. The scanned copies of ConneXion form a valuable archive of technical articles and discussions from a pivotal time in the Internet's history.
- PBS's Nerds 2.0.1
- A follow-up to the original
- History of the IETF/ISOC relationship
- By Vint Cerf, July 1995.
- Announcing ISOC
- by Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Lyman Chapin, 1992
- Internet History Mail List
- An archived mailing list for questions about Internet history
- Baran's classic RAND papers on packet-switching from the early 60s
- Publications in the On Distributed Communications Series.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History
- An overview of the philosohpy and history of the Internet, by Gregory R. Gromov.
- 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.
- Internet History Timeline
- A timeline of significant Internet-related developments (in German).
- The Living Internet
- Examines the history of the Internet, Web, Email, Usenet, and more, using an unique step-by-step approach.
- A History of the Internet
- A multilingual multimedia History of the Internet as seen from the Finnish University and Research Network.
- Origins and Nature of the Internet in Australia
- By Roger Clarke
- History and Overview of CSNET (PDF: 156KB)
- by Peter J. Denning, with Anthony Hearn and C. William Kern. Published in ACM SIGCOMM 83. This paper reviews the history, the goals, the organisation and the components of CSNET (the Computer Science Research Network). CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by spreading the TCP/IP and nameserver technology, and by negotiating new policies with ARPA and NSF for commercial traffic on the net.
- The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force
- A guide to the history, culture, and philosphy of the IETF.
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