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Timelines and Talks |
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| A brief history of the Internet (1999). By Leiner, Cerf, Clark, Kahn, Kleinrock, Lynch, Postel, Roberts, Wolff. | A succinct description of the pre-commercial days and the transition to commercialization by many of the key participants. |
http://arxiv.org/html/cs/9901011? | |||
| History of the Internet, with very accessible explanations of key facets. |
A project maintained by Bill Stewart, as an open source project. |
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| Interview with Robert Cailliau, CERN collaborator with Tim Berners-Lee on the invention of the web. | Some reflections on the occasion of his retirement. | ||||
| Internet history links, as provided by the Internet Society. | Internet histories of varous lengths, pursuing difference angles, from various perspectives. | http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/ |
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| Another history. | Very colorful. | ||||
| JC Thomson Jr. provides a narrative of the privatization. | An account of privatization | ||||
| Nerd TV, by Bob Cringely. | Interviews with many interesting inventors. Cringely has a talent for getting somebody to relax and talk. | http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/ | |||
| A Technical History of the Internet, given in 1999 at ACM Sigcomm | Presentations by 19 key participants in the early Internet. | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/sigcomm/t1/ | |||
| A timeline of Internet history. Part of online project on the History of Computing. | A very straightforward timeline. Not cluttered. | http://www.thocp.net/reference/internet/internet3.htm | |||
Adoption |
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| Current Population Survey Reports on Internet use | Date on household use of the Internet for the mid 1990s. | ||||
| NTIA reports | Description of CPS surveys. | http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/index.html | |||
| Global adoption | Larry Landweber's maps of global adoption and connectivity of the Internet from the 1990s. | http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~lhl/maps/ | |||
Company profiles |
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| Netcom | Wikipedia entry on Netcom | ||||
| PSINET | Wikipedia entry for PSI | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSINet | |||
| UUNET | Wikipedia entry for UUNET | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUNET | |||
| Portal Software | Wikipedia entry for Portal software | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_Software | |||
Historical Documents |
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| Ed Krol's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet (1987) | Essential reference guide at the time. | ||||
| Bill Gate's 1995 memo titled "The Internet Tidal Wave." | At eight pages and single spaced, it hardly deserves the title "memo." Widely credited as the point at which Gates changed his mind about the Internet and the Web and altered the strategic direction at Microsoft. | http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_exhibits.htm, Exhibit 20. | |||
| Tim Berners-Lee's first web page | It is pretty simple by modern standards, but the FAQ page gives a good sense of what the WWW was trying to do. | http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html | |||
| Early history of web. | WWW history up until 95. | ||||
| History of W3C. | WWW consortium history. | ||||
| Account of an early (first?) ISP | JC Thompson Jr. talks about his experience as an ISP. | ||||
Historical essays |
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| The Internet and American Business, Edited by William Aspray and Paul Ceruzzi | A collection of essays (including one by yours truly) about the Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Looking at recent events through historical lens. | http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11468 | |||
| Craign Partridge and the technical history of email | Published in the Annuls of the History of Computing | http://www.ir.bbn.com/~craig/ | |||
| Tom Van Vleck on the history of email | Discussion of the history of email | ||||
| Brad Templeton on the 25 year anniversery of Spam | Spam, spam, spam, wonderful spam.... | http://www.templetons.com/brad/spam/spam25.html | |||
| The Evolution of ARPAnet email, by Ian R. Hardy. | Social history of email until late 1980s. | http://www.ifla.org.sg/documents/internet/hari1.txt | |||
| The impact email work done at The Rand Corporation in the mid-1970’s, by David Crocker |
Observations and reflections from an early pioneer on the advances and inventions that led to email and where they led. | http://www.bbiw.net/recent.html | |||
| History of email from the livinghistory web site. | History of email from variety of persectives. Very accessible. | http://www.livinginternet.com/e/e.htm | |||
Historical statistics and interpretations |
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| Andrew Odlyzko | Minnesota Internet Traffic Studies provides many Internet traffic statistics | http://www.dtc.umn.edu/mints/home.html | |||
| Internet Statistics | Links kept by the Internet Society |