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Origins of the Internet

A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.

Where the Internet came from, and what it was an answer to. Collects the founding network papers together with the alternatives they displaced -- air defence, the telephone system, the packet-switching proposals that lost -- because a choice reads as a choice only against what else was on offer. Histories written afterwards belong here alongside the papers they look back on.

45 references

"The Third University of Cambridge": BBN and the Development of the ARPAnet
Good Science Project (2024) · Good Science Project
Before Facebook and Twitter: The Online Computing Revolution of the 1980s
David Scott Cooper (2023)
An Early Future of the Internet
Jens Schröter (2023) · Tech Imaginations · universi — Universitätsverlag Siegen
A Historical Twist on Long-Range Wireless: Building a 103 km Multi-Hop Network Replicating Claude Chappe's Telegraph
Mina Rady and others (2022) · Sensors · MDPI AG
The ARPANET into the Internet: A tale of two networks
Noel Packard (2020) · Studies in Media and Communication
Messaging Before the Internet—Early Electrical Telegraphs [Historical]
Massimo Guarnieri (2019) · IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine · IEEE
Designing an Internet
David D. Clark (2018) · MIT Press
The history of the internet: the missing narratives
Martin Campbell-Kelly and others (2013) · Journal of Information Technology · SAGE Publications
The first worldwide public packet switching network
Luis Arroyo (2010) · 2010 Second IEEE HISTELCON: History of Electro-technology Conference · IEEE
Creating the Vision for the Internet: From the Wiener Circles to Licklider and ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO)
Ronda Hauben (2004) · Kybernetik und Interdisziplinarität in den Wissenschaften: Georg Klaus zum 90. Geburtstag · trafo Verlag
J.C.R. Licklider's vision for the IPTO
C.I. Kita (2003) · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The telephone network of the 1960s
Frederick T. Andrews (2002) · IEEE Communications Magazine
Growth of the Internet
Kerry G. Coffman and others (2002) · Optical Fiber Telecommunications IVB: Systems and Impairments · Academic Press
Ideological and Policy Origins of the Internet, 1957-1969
Andrew L. Russell (2001) · arXiv (Cornell University) · Cornell University
Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986
Arthur Norberg (2000) · Johns Hopkins University Press
Changing computing: the computing community and DARPA
Arthur L. Norberg (1996) · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · IEEE
DARPA Technical Accomplishments. Volume II. An Historical Review of Selected DARPA Projects
Richard H. Van Atta and others (1991) · Institute for Defense Analyses
DARPA Technical Accomplishments. An Historical Review of Selected DARPA Projects. Volume 1
Sidney G. Reed and others (1990) · Institute for Defense Analyses
The design philosophy of the DARPA internet protocols
David D. Clark (1988) · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · Association for Computing Machinery
Congestion avoidance and control
Van Jacobson and others (1988) · Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols · Association for Computing Machinery
The early years: founding IPTO
J. C. R. Licklider (1988) · Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence · Howard W. Sams
The ARPANET and the DARPA Internet
Dennis G. Perry and others (1988) · Library Hi Tech
An algorithm for distributed computation of a spanning tree in an extended LAN
Radia Perlman (1985) · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · Association for Computing Machinery
History of the Design of the SAGE Computer-The AN/FSQ-7
Morton M. Astrahan and others (1983) · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Transmission Control Protocol
J. Postel (1981) · RFC Editor
General purpose packet satellite networks
I.M. Jacobs and others (1978) · Proceedings of the IEEE · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Advances in packet radio technology
R.E. Kahn and others (1978) · Proceedings of the IEEE · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The Evolution of Packet Switching
Lawrence G. Roberts (1978) · Proceedings of the IEEE
DATAPAC: A Canadian packet switching network
S. B. Erskine (1977) · Canadian Electrical Engineering Journal · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The ARPA Network Design Decisions
John M. McQuillan and others (1977) · Computer Networks · North-Holland Publishing Company
Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks
Robert M. Metcalfe and others (1976) · Communications of the ACM
A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication
Vinton G. Cerf and others (1974) · IEEE Transactions on Communications · IEEE Communications Society
Presentation and major design aspects of the CYCLADES computer network
Louis Pouzin (1973) · Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Data Communications and Data Networks: Analysis and Design (DATACOMM '73) · Association for Computing Machinery
TYMNET: A terminal oriented communication network
La Roy Tymes (1971) · Proceedings of the May 18-20, 1971, Spring Joint Computer Conference
THE ALOHA SYSTEM: another alternative for computer communications
N. Abramson (1970) · Proceedings of the November 17-19, 1970, Fall Joint Computer Conference
The interface message processor for the ARPA computer network
F. E. Heart and others (1970) · Proceedings of the May 5-7, 1970, Spring Joint Computer Conference · Association for Computing Machinery
A note on reliable full-duplex transmission over half-duplex links
Keith A. Bartlett and others (1969) · Communications of the ACM · Association for Computing Machinery
Toward a cooperative network of time-shared computers
Thomas Marill and others (1966) · Proceedings of the November 7-10, 1966, Fall Joint Computer Conference · ACM Press
On Distributed Communications Networks
P. Baran (1964) · IRE Transactions on Communications Systems · IEEE
On Distributed Communications: I. Introduction to Distributed Communications Networks
Paul Baran (1964) · The RAND Corporation
On Distributed Communications: Summary Overview
Paul Baran (1964) · The RAND Corporation
Man-computer symbiosis
J. C. R. Licklider (1960) · IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics
The role of computers in air defense
W. H. Tetley (1958) · Papers and discussions presented at the December 3-5, 1958, eastern joint computer conference: Modern computers: objectives, designs, applications · ACM Press
SAGE — A Data-Processing System for Air Defense
R. R. Everett and others (1957) · Papers and Discussions Presented at the Eastern Joint Computer Conference
Histoire de la télégraphie
Ignace Urbain Jean Chappe (1824) · L'auteur