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• - Merit explains how it managed and re-engineered the NSFNET Backbone.
  
• - Steven Hartley covers topics such as IMP, Packet Switching, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.
  
• - Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.
  
• - Robet E. Kahn's contribution to "Revolution in the U.S. Information Structure", published in 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN.
  
• - Cheryl Gribble gives a clear outline with bibliography and links to related sites.
  
• - Dr. Rognar Ismaellsen covers the Web, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.
  
• - A directory of sites on the history of the Internet, Usenet, Web, email and related topics.
  
• - Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu.
  
• - Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm.
  
• - Microsoft explains the origins of the web in ArpaNet, the contribution of Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Consortium and domain names.
  
• - Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of 1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.
  
• - The story behind HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found, and Room 404 at CERN. Wait for the real page to load.
  
• - A list of links to resources.
  
• - Yahoo!'s picks of the top 100 moments from the first 10 years of the Internet. Inspired by 10x10 by Jonathan Harris.
  
• - A collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking.
  
• - A thesis with bibliography written in 1993 by Henry Edward Hardy.
  
• - Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.
  
• - Scott Ruthfield explores the beginnings of the Internet, development of IMPs and packet-switching, ARPAnet, TCP/IP, and NSFNet, with references.
  
• - Essay derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004. Discusses the dot-com bubble and lasting lessons learned from it.
  
• - Science fiction author Bruce Sterling recounts the early history of ARPAnet and the Internet in this 1993 article.
  
• - This overview by Richard T. Griffiths covers the development of computers, ArpaNet, email, search engines and Basic Net Data.
  
• - An authoritative history, written by some of those who were most closely associated with its creation and development.
  
• - Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss.
  
• - 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.