Open Directory - Computers: Internet: History
See also: This category in other languages: - Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history. - 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. - 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. - An anecdotal history by Walt Howe of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web. Includes a glossary of terms. - 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. - Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet. - This overview by Richard T. Griffiths covers the development of computers, ArpaNet, email, search engines and Basic Net Data. - An authoritative history, written by some of those who were most closely associated with its creation and development. - A list of links to resources. - Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work. - Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet. - Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm. - Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss. - Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of 1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings. - Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu. - Essay derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004. Discusses the dot-com bubble and lasting lessons learned from it. (September 01, 2004) - 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 09, 2003) - Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN. (April 01, 1995) - An early New York Times article on the Internet. (February 28, 1993)
