20 Reasons to Put Your Business on the World Wide Web

Classic article outlining 20 core reasons for commercial entities to establish a presence on the World Wide Web.

A Brief History of the Internet

An overview of the historical and technological evolution of the Internet, provided by the Internet

A short history of the Web – Home | CERN

From the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), an article on the origins and history of the World Wide Web, invented there in 1989.

Brief History of the Internet

from the Internet Society.

Computer Museum History Center

<p>In the early 1990s, Gopher was growing faster than the Web. Written at the University of Minnesota (whose mascot was the gopher), it used a hierarchical organization like computer file systems.</p>

History of the Internet

Explore the history of the internet, from its origins to the global network it is today, with resources from the Internet Society.

History of the Internet

timeline of the development of the Internet.

History of the Internet and Web

in timeline format, with emphasis on the many creators and their contributions.

Hobbes" Internet Timeline

starting in 1950, tracing the events that lead to the Internet of today.

Internet Archive, The

building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Features the Wayback Machine, which makes it possible to surf pages stored in the Internet Archive"s web arch

Internet History - Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum"s program on Internet history, preserving materials and stories from the

Keith Lynch"s timeline of net related terms and concepts

An historical timeline of Usenet, the Internet, and related concepts, terms, and people. Maintained by the original author.

LivingInternet.com

source of information about the Internet covering the history of email, usenet, IRC, MUDs, mailing lists, the Web, and more.

Museum of Obsolete Media: WebTV

Preservation record and hardware history of the set-top box internet browsing system.

Netizens

On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet

Pew Research Center: Internet & Technology

A nonpartisan fact tank that provides public information, data, and analysis on the social impact of the internet and technology.

Turning on the World Wide Web

CNET News interview with Paul Kunz, the physicist who brought the Web to the U.S.

USENIX ;login: - the first isp

first-person account of building the first commercial ISP in 1989, before the Web was born. By Spike Ilacqua.

W3 History

an open project and work in progress to create a comprehensive history of the Internet and the WWW from 1989 to the present day.

WAIS – The History of Domain Names

Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) is a client–server text searching system that uses the ANSI Standard Z39.50 Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specifications for Library Applications” to search index databases on remote compute