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.

An anecdotal history by Walt Howe of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web. Includes a glossary of terms.

Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN. (April, 1995)

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.

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.

Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.

Scott Ruthfield explores the beginnings of the Internet, development of IMPs and packet-switching, ARPAnet, TCP/IP, and NSFNet, with references. (September, 1995)

Dr. Rognar Ismaellsen covers the Web, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.

This overview by Richard T. Griffiths covers the development of computers, ArpaNet, email, search engines and Basic Net Data.

Cheryl Gribble gives a clear outline with bibliography and links to related sites.

An authoritative history, written by some of those who were most closely associated with its creation and development.

A list of links to resources.

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

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. (September, 2004)

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. (September 9, 2003)

An early New York Times article on the Internet. (February 28, 1993)

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.

Robet E. Kahn's contribution to 'Revolution in the U.S. Information Structure', published in 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences.

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

A collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking.

Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of 1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings.

Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu.