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	Internet Society: Internet Histories - http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/ A list of links to resources.
	Internet Society: A Brief History of the Internet - http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml An authoritative history, written by some of those who were most closely associated with its creation and development.
	World Wide Web Journal - http://www.w3j.com/ Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of 1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings.
	The World Wide Web History Project - http://www.webhistory.org/ A collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking.
	Net Valley - http://www.netvalley.com/ Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.

	Netizens Netbook - http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.
	NetHistory - http://nethistory.dumbentia.com/ Chris Condon's informal history of BITNET and the Internet. Includes early net publications.
	Community Memory - http://memex.org/community-memory.html Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.
	A Brief History of the Internet - http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html An anecdotal history by Walt Howe of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web. Includes a glossary of terms.
	A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN - http://ben.home.cern.ch/ben/TCPHIST.html Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN.

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

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

	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.
	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.
	Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web - http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ Yahoo!'s picks of the top 100 moments from the first 10 years of the Internet. Inspired by 10x10 by Jonathan Harris.
	Brief History of the Internet - http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/historyofthenet.html 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.

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