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. A Spanish-language
translation is also available.
Hobbes'
Internet Timeline An Internet timeline highlighting some of the key events and technologies
which helped shape the Internet as we know it today.
Archive of early
Internet and BITNET online publications NetHistory will give you a feeling for what it was like in the pioneering
days of BITNET and the Internet. Hopefully, you will come to understand
the early Internet experience.
Baran's
classic RAND papers on packet-switching from the early 60's
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.
How
the Internet Came to Be by Vinton Cerf, as told to Bernard Aboba. Article from "The
Online User's Encyclopedia," by Bernard Aboba.
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.
History
and Development of the Internet: a Timeline
by Rhonda Davila. Illustrates a chronology of notable events that led
to the Internets creation and concludes with the thirtieth anniversary
of the ARPANET experiment.
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)
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.
A German History
of the Internet (in
German; in English)
This resource from David Goldstein of nic.at traces general Internet
development worldwide with particular emphasis on its growth in Austria,
Germany and central Europe.