[Air-L] what sources do you use for a "history of the Internet"?

Josep Vives josep.vives at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 01:08:59 PDT 2009


Hi,

Perhaps the Internet history research most important (with hundreds of
interviews to internet pioneers over the world): (abstract in english):

http://www.tesisenxarxa.net/TDX-1104104-101718/index_cs.html

The researcher is Catalan, works in Standord. an is friend of Vinton Cerf,
Mockapetris, and dozens of Internet Pioneers that he interviewed for his
dosctoral thesis. More info abou he and his research (in progress still):
http://www.veabaro.info/default-e.htm

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2009/7/20 Sam Ladner <samladner at gmail.com>

> Hello all,
>
> I have run into this problem, yet again, and am still looking for a
> solution. I'm writing a (very brief) history of the Internet for an
> article.
> I have the following sources, which a) seem outdated and b) not
> sufficiently
> scholarly.
>
> Leiner, B. et al. 1997. ""The Past and Future History of the Internet."
> Communications of the ACM, February 1997.
> Berners-Lee, Tim. 1998, "The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal
> History",  Retrieved July 9, 2009, 2009 (
> http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html).
> World Wide Web Consortium. 2007, "A Little History of the World Wide Web",
> Retrieved February 19, 2007 (http://www.w3.org/History.html).
>
> Can anyone point me in the direction of either more recent or more
> scholarly
> sources? I wrestle with using Wikipedia (as many have discussed on this
> list
> in the past). I would prefer, at the very least, a pre-press paper from a
> scholar.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
> s.
>
> --
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> Sam Ladner, PhD
> Sociologist
> Toronto
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http://josepvives.cat
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http://www.cibersociedad.net
jvives at cibersociedad.net
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