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» 1971 Prediction of the Web/Telesphere

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.

http://www.vcn.bc.ca/web-prophet/

» 80s BBS

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.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/80sBBS/

» A Brief History of the Internet

An anecdotal history by Walt Howe of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web. Includes a glossary of terms.

http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

» Brief History of the Internet

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.

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/historyofthenet.html

» Community Memory

Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.

http://memex.org/community-memory.html

» History of the Internet: Internet for Historians

This overview by Richard T. Griffiths covers the development of computers, ArpaNet, email, search engines and Basic Net Data.

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html

» Internet Society: A Brief History of the Internet

An authoritative history, written by some of those who were most closely associated with its creation and development.

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

» Internet Society: Internet Histories

A list of links to resources.

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

» Netizens Netbook

Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.

http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/

» The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History

Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.

http://www.vissing.dk/inthist.html

» The Morris Internet Worm

Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm.

http://www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/worm.html

» The Story of the PING Program

Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss.

http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html

» World Wide Web Journal

Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of 1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings.

http://www.w3j.com/

» World-Wide Web: Origins And Beyond

Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu.

http://www.zeltser.com/web-history/

» SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays

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)

http://searchenginewatch.com/3071951

» A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN

Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN. (April 01, 1995)

http://ben.home.cern.ch/ben/TCPHIST.html

» The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services

An early New York Times article on the Internet. (February 28, 1993)

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/28/business/the-executive-computer-a-web-of-networks-an-abundance-of-services.html