In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internets design and use.
Congressional Research Service report. Reviews the organization, history, and infrastructure of the Internet, and proposals for the future. Discusses types of applications available on the Internet, including electronic mail, World Wide Web, and Java, growth of the Internet, and costs.
Published 1997 by Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Larry G. Roberts, Stephen Wolff
Read about the history of the internet, from its 1950s origins to the World Wide Web’s explosion in popularity in the late 1990s and the ‘dotcom bubble’.