History of the Internet

Simon Jeffery et. al., When was the Internet invented? A People’s history of the internet (The Guardian, 2009)

In this article, the authors seek to compile a history of the internet.

Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World, Chapters 2, 3, 4, pp 13-63 (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Goldsmith and Wu provide a detailed narrative of the evolution of the Internet from its early days through 1990s. In these chapters, the authors discuss the different roles played prominent individuals such as John Perry Barlow, Jon Postel, Julian Dibbell, Vinton Cerf etc. in initiating a movement against governmental control of the Internet and introducing the idea of a borderless network. In Chapter 4, the authors discuss those aspects of Internet’s architecture which allows states to maintain territorial control.

Katie Hafner and Matthew Iyon, Where Wizards stay up late: The Origins of the Internet (1996)

The book can be downloaded from Google Books.

Tim Berners Lee, Weaving the Web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web, by its inventor (1999).

The book can be downloaded from Google Books.

Melih Bilgil, History of the Internet (Youtube, 2009)

"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

Alex Simonelis, A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies (Ubiquity, 2005)

The bodies responsible for the Internet's protocols and parameters can be said to steer the Internet in a significant sense. This document, by Alex Simonelis of Dawson College in Montreal, is a summary of those bodies and their most important characteristics.

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