[Air-L] internet history timeline

[Scott MacLeod]

A good history of the Internet is Janet Abbate's "Inventing the
Internet," Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000 rev. ed.

Scott



On 9/8/07, Emma Duke-Williams <emma.dukewilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/09/2007, smork at itu.dk <smork at itu.dk> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm looking for a good history timeline of the internet. I've googled and
> > I find the result bad. Most of them end in the nineties and Hobbes only
> > goes to 2004. They also seem very eclectic and too centered on the US. Do
> > any of you know of a good timeline? What I'm specifically looking for is
> > examples of companies buying up sites with user generated content, one
> > example would be when google acquired the Deja archive of usenet.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Søren Mørk
>
> I've just seen http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms/how-the-social-web-came-to-be-part1.html
> - which was a link from Steven Downes' OL Daily email.
>
> It's focussing on the "Social" web, but seems to have a reasonable
> overview of the Internet. (Goes back to 1746, though it's actually
> dated 1945-2002. Not yet seen part two)
>
> Emma
> --
> New URL: Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
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