Internet Society

A Timeline

Maps of evolving configuration

ISPs today

1990 US High Performance Computing Act
- sponsored by Senator Al Gore
- to bring the Internet to US citizens
- proposes a high speed fiber optic network

1992 Clinton-Gore campaign
- "information superhighway" is a campaign issue

- National Information Infrastructure program
- goal (in part): "extend the universal service concept to ensure information resources are available to all at affordable prices."  (1, 299)
- lots of press coverage

Internet hosts (1, 299)
- 1992, over 1 million
- 1993, over 2 million
- 1994, over 4 million

2004 35th Anniversary

1. Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray. Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Basic Books, 1996).

2. Paul E. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003).

3. Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Simon & Schuster, 1998). This is very readable with good information.

4. Stephen Segaller, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (TV Books, 1998).

5. Chris Edmondson-Yurkanen, "'THINK' Protocols," http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/think/index.htm (Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, accessed 2004 Nov 5). Technical histories of the Internet and other network protocols.

6. "Internet Histories," http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/ (Internet Society, accessed 2004 Nov 6).