Community Memory 
Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.
http://memex.org/community-memory.htmlThe Role of Government in the Evolution 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.
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/newpath/chap2.html
From Wartime Tool to the Fish Cam 
Scott Ruthfield explores the beginnings of the Internet, development of IMPs and packet-switching, ARPAnet, TCP/IP, and NSFNet, with references.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-1/inet-history.html
NetHistory 
Chris Condon's informal history of BITNET and the Internet. Includes early net publications.
http://nethistory.dumbentia.com/
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.
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html
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.
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html
80s BBS 
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.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/80sBBS/
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.
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/historyofthenet.html
Net Valley 
Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.
http://www.netvalley.com/
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.
http://www.w3j.com/
Netizens Netbook 
Anthology of the history of Usenet and the Internet, including descriptive as well as theoretical work.
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
History of the Web Beginning at CERN 
Cheryl Gribble gives a clear outline with bibliography and links to related sites.
http://www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.asp
The World Wide Web History Project 
A collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking.
http://www.webhistory.org/
The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History 
Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.
http://www.vissing.dk/inthist.html
A Tour of the Worm 
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.
http://world.std.com/~franl/worm.html
The Morris Internet Worm 
Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm.
http://www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/worm.html
A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN 
Ben Segal traces the history of the Internet at CERN.
http://ben.home.cern.ch/ben/TCPHIST.html
The Story of the PING Program 
Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss.
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html
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.
http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html
Internet Society: A Brief History of the Internet 
An authoritative history, written by some of those who were most closely associated with its creation and development.
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
Internet Society: Internet Histories 
A list of links to resources.
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/
Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web 
Yahoo!'s picks of the top 100 moments from the first 10 years of the Internet. Inspired by 10x10 by Jonathan Harris.
http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
World-Wide Web: Origins And Beyond 
Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu.
http://www.zeltser.com/web-history/
SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays 
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.
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3071951
The Executive Computer; A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services 
An early New York Times article on the Internet.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DC1239F93BA15751C0A965958260