It is impossible to place the origins of the Internet in a single moment of time. One could
argue that its roots lie in the earliest communications technologies of centuries and millennia …

I was extraordinarily lucky to be born when and where I was. Of all the times and places to
arrive, 1946 in Britain was perfectly placed to benefit from the affluent society, universal …

From the Publisher: Just try to imagine the world without the Internet. Yet in the early 1990s,
hardly any of us knew it existed. What even fewer know is that its roots stretch back well into …

In this paper I describe the difference between “the history of the Internet” and “histories of
networking.” The former phrase often describes a linear success story, one that starts with …

An early history of the internet [History of Communications] Page 1 IEEE Communications
Magazine • August 2010 26 0163-6804/10/$25.00 © 2010 IEEE INTRODUCTION It is …

The computer era began almost 70 years ago, in 1943, with the creation of ENIAC. The
Internet itself is almost 40 years old, and the packet technology that underlies it goes back …

From Gutenberg to the Internet presents 63 original readings from the history of computing,
networking, and telecommunications arranged thematically by chapters. Most of the …

This chapter summarizes the technical history of the internet. The history of the Western
internet is a chronicle of contradiction. In its predominantly pre-market phase, the internet …

On October 3, 1969, two computers at remote locations" sp to each other over the Internet for
the first time. Connected by miles of leased telephone line, the two machines, one at the …

The Internet is a technological construction with a magnitude and scope comparable to the
hydroelectric dams, railroads, aircraft, and electric power systems of an earlier era. Yet, it …