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Community Memory  - http://memex.org/community-memory.html  Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.  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.  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.  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.  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.  80s BBS  - http://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.  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.  Net Valley  - http://www.netvalley.com/  Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.  History of the Internet  - http://nethistory.hot-1000.com/  Dr. Rognar Ismaellsen covers the Web, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.  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.  OrangePeel.com: History of the Internet  - http://www.orangepeel.com/newOP/en/internet/shortHistory.php  Steven Hartley covers topics such as IMP, Packet Switching, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.  A Brief History of the Internet  - http://www.microsoft.com/insider/guide/history.asp  Microsoft explains the origins of the web in ArpaNet, the contribution of Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Consortium and domain names.  Netizens Netbook  - http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/  Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.  SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays  - http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/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.  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.  The History of 404  - http://www.room404.com/  The story behind HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found, and Room 404 at CERN. Wait for the real page to load.  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.  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.  A Tour of the Worm  - http://world.std.com/%7Efranl/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.  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.  NetHistory  - http://nethistory.urldir.com/  A directory of sites on the history of the Internet, Usenet, Web, email and related topics.  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.  Merit: History  - http://www.merit.edu/home/about/history.html  Merit explains how it managed and re-engineered the NSFNET Backbone.  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.  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.  Internet Society: Internet Histories  - http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/  A list of links to resources.  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.  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.