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	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.
	Internet Society: Internet Histories - http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/ A list of links to resources.
	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.
	NetHistory - http://nethistory.dumbentia.com/ Chris Condon's informal history of BITNET and the Internet. Includes early net publications.
	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.
	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.
	A Tour of the Worm - http://world.std.com/~franl/worm.html Donn Seeley tells the story of the Internet Worm of 1988 and how it effectively shut down the Internet. Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Technical Conference, San Diego, California, January 1989.
	Net Valley - http://www.netvalley.com/ Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.
	Community Memory - http://memex.org/community-memory.html Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.

	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.
	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.
	History of the Web Beginning at CERN - http://www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.asp Cheryl Gribble gives a clear outline with bibliography and links to related sites.
	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.

	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.
	80s BBS - 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.
	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.
	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.
	The Role of Government in the Evolution of the Internet - http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/newpath/chap2.html Robet E. Kahn's contribution to "Revolution in the U.S. Information Structure", published in 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences.

	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.
	SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays - http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=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.
	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.
	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.
	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.

Netizens Netbook - http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.

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