Internet Histories:

• Internet History and Growth, by William Slater III - Chicago Chapter of the Internet Society [PPT presentation]
  
  
• The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN
  By Ben Segal
  
• Net History
  A site dedicated to Internet history links, including Internet,
  email, web and other related history sources.
  
• The Internet Tapes
  Professionally produced Audio CD and Ebook products on Internet
  history, suitable for educational use and for non-technical
  audiences.

• Brief History of the Internet
  Excellent narrative of the Internet and Related Networks by Vint Cerf.
  
  
• Hobbes' Internet Timeline
  An Internet timeline highlighting some of the key events and technologies which helped shape the Internet as we know it today.
  
  
• Internetology
  Contains a snapshot of worldwide connectivity every 6 months from November 1993 to May 1997.
  
  
• PBS's Nerds 2.0.1
  A follow-up to the original...
  
  
• History of the IETF/ISOC relationship
  By Vint Cerf, July 1995.
  
  
• Internet History Mail List
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Computers: History and Development
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Keith Lynch's Timeline of net related terms, concepts, stories, and people
  Timeline from June 1975 to February 1998 showing when terms, concepts, stories, and people were first mentioned.
  
  
• History and Development of the Internet: a Timeline
  by Rhonda Davila. Illustrates a chronology of notable events that led to the Internet’s 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 & World Wide Web History
  
  
• History of Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History by Gregory R. Gromov
  
  
• USENET History
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Internet History Timeline (in German)
  
  
• The Start of the Internet at UCLA
  Information on early Internet development efforts at the University of California - Los Angeles.
  
  
• The Living Internet
  Examines the history of the Internet, Web, Email, Usenet, and more, using an unique step-by-step approach.
  
  
• A History of the Internet
  A multilingual multimedia History of the Internet as seen from the Finnish University and Research Network.
  
  
• A Brief History of the Internet in Australia, Version 3.1 of 5 May 2001 by Roger Clarke
  
  
• The ARPANET after 20 years
  by Peter. J. Denning. Published in American Scientist, November 1989. Of interest today because it records a story that differs from some of the modern day versions!
  
  
• History and Overview of CSNET
  by Peter J. Denning with Anthony Hearn and C. William Kern. Published in ACM SIGCOMM 83. This paper reviews the history, the goals, the organization and the components of CSNET (the Computer Science Research Network). CSNET bridged between the original (closed) ARPANET and the NSFNET (open) by spreading the TCP/IP and nameserver technology, and by negotiating new policies with ARPA and NSF for commercial traffic on the net.
  
  
  

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