Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.

Online book by Wendy M. Grossman. Observations on the growth of the Internet and corresponding controversies surrounding it.

Chris Condon's informal history of BITNET and the Internet. Includes early net publications.

Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.

Essay derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004. Discusses the dot-com bubble and lasting lessons learned from it.

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.

An early New York Times article on the Internet.

Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.

Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm.

Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss.