Internet: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
An early history of the Internet is Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (1999). John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2005), is the only book to explicitly address the role of people such as Stewart Brand in the making of the personal computer. Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, rev. ed. (2000), the first book to address the issue of online communities, remains an engaging and thoughtful work, and his Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002), predicts the future of democracy. Lawrence Lessig, Code: Version 2.0 (2006), is an erudite discussion of how to properly regulate the Internet. Ronald Deibert et al. (eds.), Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (2008); and Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (2008), examine various efforts and potential threats to censor the Internet. Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (2006), is a visionary tome on the power of networks. Daniel J. Solove, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (2007), is a wide-ranging discussion of the conflict between free speech and privacy over the Internet.
Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn, “A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 22(5):637–648 (May 1974), is the paper that first detailed the overall architecture of the Internet and its operation. Barry M. Leiner et al., “The Past and Future History of the Internet,” Communications of the ACM, 40(2):102–108 (February 1997), gives a concise overview of the history of the Internet, together with some speculations on future directions.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: Open Washington Pressbooks - Business Technology Essentials - Internet Basics. | Sep 26, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Workforce LibreTexts - Web Browsers and the Internet. | Aug 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Open Library Publishing Platform - Information Systems for Business and Beyond - The Internet. | May 25, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Social and Psychological Effects of the Internet Use. | Mar 20, 2026 | ||
| Added cross-reference. | Jan 12, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania State University - CiteSeerX - Multimedia Broadcasting Over the Internet (PDF). | Apr 02, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Link adjusted. | Jan 30, 2025 | ||
| Link added. | Jan 30, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford University - How Does the Internet Work? | Oct 28, 2024 | ||
| Tagged 21st Century Technology Timeline. | Aug 28, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | May 10, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Internet and E-Mail (PDF). | Jan 05, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | Aug 18, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 20, 2023 | ||
| Links added. | Mar 16, 2023 | ||
| Links and photos added. | Jan 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Business LibreTexts - A Managers Guide to the Internet and Telecommunications. | Nov 30, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Sep 26, 2022 | ||
| Removed media. | Dec 15, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 08, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | May 27, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Inventors and Inventions - The Internet. | Feb 02, 2021 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 26, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - Internet History Timeline: ARPANET to the World Wide Web. | Dec 12, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Kidzworld - The History of the Internet. | Dec 05, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Society - About the Internet. | Aug 22, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThoughtCo. - The History of the Internet. | May 17, 2018 | ||
| Updated the number of global Internet users. | May 16, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Computer Hope - Who invented the Internet? | Dec 23, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: History of Computers - Internet. | Aug 01, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Computer Hope - What is internet? | Aug 01, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Computer History Museum - Internet History 1962 to 1992. | Aug 01, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 15, 2016 | ||
| Added video. | Apr 20, 2015 | ||
| Added video. | Apr 07, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Elon University School of Communications - Imagining the Internet. | Mar 07, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Greatest Engineering Achievements - High-performance Materials History of Composites. | Mar 07, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Greatest Engineering Achievements - High-performance Materials History of Composites. | Mar 07, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Elon University School of Communications - Imagining the Internet. | Mar 07, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Computer History Museum - Internet History 1962 to 1992. | Mar 06, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - Computer - What's the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? | Feb 14, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - How Does the Internet Work. | Feb 14, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Iloveindia.com - History of Internet. | Feb 14, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Kids - Fun Science and Technology for Kids! - Internet. | Mar 21, 2012 | ||
| Sections on Instant broadcast communication and Social gaming and social networking updated. Discussion of .xxx domain removed. Section on Privacy and the Internet added. | Jan 18, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Science - The Internet. | Jul 19, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - Computer - How Internet Infrastructure Works. | May 19, 2011 | ||
| Bibliography updated. | Oct 07, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Sep 22, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Federal Communications Commission - History of The Internet. | Jul 23, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 03, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Australian Government - IT and Internet Privacy Issues. | Oct 31, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 16, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 02, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: U.S. Department of Education - Parents Guide to the Internet. |
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Nov 03, 2006 | |
| Media added. | Oct 23, 2006 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Aug 17, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: PBS Online - Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet. | Jul 24, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of South Carolina - Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web. | Jun 26, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Cable-Modem.net. | May 23, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Oct 26, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |