History
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Community Memory
- Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.
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- 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.
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- Netizens Netbook
- Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.
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- The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History
- Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.
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- 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.
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- Paul Graham - What the Bubble Got Right
- Essay derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004. Discusses the dot-com bubble and lasting lessons learned from it. (September 01, 2004)
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- The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services
- An early New York Times article on the Internet. (February 28, 1993)
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- Telehack
- A simulation of a stylized Arpanet/Usenet, circa 1985-1990, including 25,000 hosts and BBS's of the early net, thousands of files from the era and simulated historical users.
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- The Trojan Room Coffee Machine
- The official site. Includes the final image of the machine being switched off, a non-technical biography, and an audio copy of a 1994 radio report.
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- Wikipedia: Trojan Room coffee pot
- Encyclopedia article with history and sitings in popular culture.
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- The Register: Do you Want to Own the Trojan Room Coffee Pot?
- Article discussing the sale of the coffee pot on eBay. (August 01, 2001)
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- The Register: World's First Webcam Coffee Pot to be Scrapped
- Article discussing the reasoning behind the coffee pot camera, its history, and its end. (March 07, 2001)
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- ABCNEWS.com: Plug Pulled on Web's Historic Coffeepot
- Report by Leela Jacinto, looking at the coffeepot's practicality, invention, and rise to fame. (March 07, 2001)
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- 2004 U.S. Federal Agency Web Harvest
- A harvest of Federal Agency public web sites as they existed prior to January 20, 2005.