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• The Internet Archive
Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots".
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• The Internet: Past, Present and Future: Internet and WWW History
Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.
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• The Morris Internet Worm
Charles Schmidt and Tom Darby explain the what, why, and how of the 1988 Internet worm.
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• The Music Magazine: Grateful for a Virtual Apple Pie
A review of Barlow's talk in Bangalore.
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• The Register: The Web as Historical Record
Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."
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• The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss
Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.
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• The Register: Britain's Web Presence to be Saved
Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).
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• The Register: Do you Want to Own the Trojan Room Coffee Pot?
Article discussing the sale of the coffee pot on eBay.
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• The Register: Google, the Only Archive We'll Ever Need?
Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index, retrieve and/or sort everything in useful ways, but its supporters are overlooking these major drawbacks to using it as an archive.
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• The Register: World's First Webcam Coffee Pot to be Scrapped
Article discussing the reasoning behind the coffee pot camera, its history, and its end.
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• The Role of Government in the Evolution of the Internet
Robet E. Kahn's contribution to "Revolution in the U.S. Information Structure", published in 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences.
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• The Story of the PING Program
Brief article about this network utility, written by its creator, Mike Muuss.
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• The Trojan Room Coffee Machine
The official site. Includes the final image of the machine being switched off, a non-technical biography, and an audio copy of a 1994 radio report.
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• The World Wide Web History Project
A collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking.
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• Tim Berners-Lee
His official site at W3C includes biographies, information about his book, and questions and answers about his contributions to the internet.
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• Time 100: Tim Berners-Lee
Joshua Quittner's profile of the man who wove the World Wide Web, with a photograph, an audio snippet, and a transcript of an online chat with Berners-Lee.
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• Trailing Edge: Coffee Cam
Article outlining the machine's history.
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• Tributes to Jon Postel (1943-1998)
A directory of links to tributes to the Internet pioneer.
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• Vinton Cerf: Hard of Hearing Father of the Internet
This profile by Jamie Berke at About.com looks at the career of the man who helped to found the Arpanet in the early 1970s.
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• Web Design Timeline
Ten years of web design in an archive.
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• Wired: It's a Poor Workman Who Blames His Tools
Article by Barlow about the perceived threats of technological change.
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• Wired: The Economy of Ideas
An article by Barlow about patents and copyrights in the Digital Age.
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• World Wide Web Journal
Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of 1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings.
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• World-Wide Web: Origins And Beyond
Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu.
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• Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web
Yahoo!'s picks of the top 100 moments from the first 10 years of the Internet. Inspired by 10x10 by Jonathan Harris.
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• ZDNet India: Freedom on the Internet
Vivek Shankar's report on Barlow's talk about India and the Internet at the Nehru Center, Mumbai.
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• ZKP: Interview of John Perry Barlow
Interview by János Sugár about cyberspace and the goals of the EFF.
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