Chronologies of Telecommunications Developments and Policies

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/telcom/chronologies.html)

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Supporting & Related Pages:

• Tele-Communications
• Back-Bone Networks

Internet History:

Clippings:

• Netscape founder (Marc Andreessen) relives wild dot-com ride Seattle Times, January 21, 2001, by Knight Ridder Newspapers in the early days at Netscape, nobody took the Internet seriously. This was early '94. We ran around to all the big media companies in New York and said, "You all should start up Internet efforts," and they all said, "Ha-ha, that's such a joke. The Internet's only used by academics and researchers.

• Bypassing the online congestion Seatlle Times, December 24, 2000 By Alwyn Scott, Seattle Times business reporter

  The problem is the basic structure of the Internet. What started as a single network linking a few U.S. universities has grown into a network of networks, passing billions of data packets backand forth around the world. Today, most people connect to just one or two of those backbones through a service provider such as America Online or EarthLink. The roads are usually clear as long as the place they want to reach is on the same set of networks. If it isn't, the packets must travel through a series of narrow interchanges, known as peering points.

• Who 'created' the Internet? It's a tangled web Seattle P.-I., Friday, October 20, 2000
• 1.5 billion Web pages linked by 19 clicks of separation: Internet expansion is similar to plant growth, scientists find Seattle PI, Monday, February 7, 2000 By TOM PAULSON [The World Wide Web is growing like a weed. Literally....]
• Web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, is spilling the details of its creation Seattle Times, October 17, 1999 by Paul Andrews

  The man who conceived the World Wide Web 10 years ago and toiled in near-anonymity as it transformed global communications is finally starting to get some acclaim. Tim Berners-Lee, a 44-year-old British physicist now affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, last year won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant to continue his work with the World Wide Web Consortium in setting technological standards for the Web's future.

• Is the Internet dead? CNN Interactive, October 27, 1998 by Bob Metcalfe, InfoWorld Columnist [Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, enlightens us about the future of the Internet and the next generation of Internet technologies.]

  "The Internet is incorporating one service after another. The original Remote Login Internet was followed by the File Transfer Internet, the Electronic Mail Internet, and the Newsgroup Internet. Then, with the World Wide Web, we got the Web Publishing Internet. Now, it's the Electronic Commerce Internet. What next? The Telepresence Internet? These Internets aren't arriving neatly one after another, which is complicated...."

Internet Sites:

• Internet History Sites (Electronic Software Publishing Corporation)
• Internet History Sites (Internet Society)

Literature:

• Andrews, Paul. How the Web was Won. Broadway Books (Random House), 1999.

  "From a company largely thought to be late to the Internet, Microsoft in a short span embraced online technology so much that rivals feared it was too dominant. In a new book, "How the Web Was Won" (Broadway Books, $27.50), Seattle Times technology columnist Paul Andrews traces how Microsoft accomplished this transformation by telling the story of the people who made it happen. In this excerpt, Andrews focuses on Ben Slivka, one of the hard-charging, sometimes combative programming executives responsible for leading the effort."

• History of the Internet [Arizona]

• Paul E. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing (Cambridge, MA; MIT Press, 1998), Ch. 9, pp. 281-306. 

• Dodge, Martin (UCL), Historical Maps of ARPANET and the Internet ["We present a range of the historical maps of ARPANET, Internet and Usenet, showing how these networks grew and developed from their beginnings in 1970s."]
• Hafner, Katie & Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. Touchtone Paperback, 1996/98. [$13] [Bibliography: pp.271-86]
  • Maps of ARPANET Development
• Hardy: The History of the Net Master's Thesis, School of Communications, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401, September 28, 1993
• Information Infrastructure Project (Harvard)- Chronology
• Hobbes' Internet Timeline by Robert 'Hobbes' Zakon, Internet Evangelist; The MITRE Corporation [Chronology starts in 1957] Mirror. Hobbes' Internet Timeline Copyright (c)1993-8 by Robert H Zakon. Permission is granted for use of this document in whole or in part for non-commercial purposes as long as this Copyright notice and a link to this document is included.
• The Internet and its Services: A Brief Review: The Basic Structure of the Internet [Author Gunther Maier (?), about 1993/94]
• Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Larry G. Roberts, Stephen Wolff, A Brief History of the Internet
• Reid, Robert H., Architects of the Web: 1000 Days that Built the Future of Business. Wiley 1997.
• Standage, Tom, The Victorian Internet. 1998. Book Review (NYT, 1999) [A review of Tom Standage's excellent book on the development of the telegraph, which argues that this earlier invention brought about changes in culture and business far faster and greater than the Internet ever could.]

• History of Science and Technology in the Silicon Valley [Stanford class with pdf readings and student (online) presentations, 1999]

History of other Telecommunications Issues:

• The Communications Decency Act - Chronology
• Chronology of Cable Negotiation Public Progress CHRONOLOGY OF CABLE NEGOTIATION PUBLIC PROCESS SPRING/SUMMER/FALL 1995 (Seattle) April 1995 Citizens Information Highway Task Force