Sources for Internet History.
-Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999) (recommended by
several IP’ers)
-Peter Salus’s little 1995 book, “Casting the Net” (recommended by
several IP’ers)
-”Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet” by Katie
Hafner (recommended by several IP’ers)
-FCC working papers that discuss Internet/Policy issues, beginning with
Kevin Werbach’s Digital Tornado paper and Jaxon Oxman’s.
-CSTB’s _Internet’s Coming of Age_ and _Funding a Revolution_ (links
below).
-Comer, D., The Internet Book: Everything you need to know about
computer networking and how the Internet works, 3rd edition, 2000.
-”Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet”?
There is an online edition at http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/
-The upcoming issue of the Amateur Computerist newsletter has an
article about the international contributions in the early creation of
tcp/ip.
-The current issue of the Amateur Computerist has a long article about
the early development of TCP/IP. It’s at
http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/ACn12-2.pdf
-Ronda Hauben, who suggested the three preceding items, also suggested
(more of) her own material, at
http://www.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other/misc
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/other
-James W. Cortada, Making the Information Society (Financial
Times/Prentice Hall, 2002)
-Books used for the CNE/MCSE tests. (Novell and Microsoft)
-L. Lessig. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.
-M. Waldrop. The Dream Machine: JCR Licklider and the Revolution that
Made Computing Personal.
-T. Berners-Lee and M. Fishetti. Weaving the Web: The Original Designer
and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor.
-IEEE history interviews, including one with Vint Cerf:
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/oral_histories/
comsoc_oh.html
-http://www.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/
-Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com
-Internet (see everything there)
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/Home_Internet.html
-Internet History http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/articles.html ;
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/INTERESTINGSITES/hubsandspokes.html
;
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/
Guidlines_for_ISP’s.html
-including ICANN
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/DOMAIN%20NAME/Domain_Name.html
-Erik Davis, Techgnosis (about the underlying mythology which has made
“information” the new holy grail)
-Milton L. Mueller, Ruling the Root (2002) (recommended once, with
reservations)