Network Archives

[L.G. Roberts' web]

  1. The ARPANET and Computer Networks

    The reasons given at that time (= ACM Symposium on Operating System) for establishing a computer network were:
    1. Load Sharing: Send program and data to remote computer to balance load.
    2. Message Service: Electronic mail service (mailbox service).
    3. Data Sharing: Remote access to data bases.
    4. Program Sharing: Send data, program remote, e.g. Supercomputer.
    5. Remote Service: Log-in to remote computer, use its programs and data.

  2. Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communication (1967)

  3. Data Processing Technology Forecast (1969)

  4. Internet Chronology (1997)

    First Introduction of the word "packet", Donald Davies, Rogger Scantlebury et all, "A digital Communication Network for Computers ...", ACM Gatlingberg Conf.

    Donald Davies work at the UK's National Physical Laboratory explored packet switching in their laboratory, but Donald could not convince the British to fund a wide area network experiment.
    His papers, however, did show the importance of packet switching for computer communication.
    This effort had been going on in parallel with the MIT efforts during 1966.

  5. Brief History of the Internet (2000))
    (Leiner, Cerf, Clark, Kahn, Kleinrock, Lynch, Postel, Roberts & Wolff)

[IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force]

  1. RFC (Request for Comments)

    In 1969 a key was taken by S. Crocker (then at UCLA) in establishing the RFC series of notes.
    These memos were intended to be an informal fast distribution way to share ideas with other network researchers.
    At first the RFCs were printed on paper and distributed via snail mail.
    (Brief History of the Internet)

  2. RFC Index
    rfc1.txt(1969) - present

  3. (Index Search Engine)

[Ronda Hauben's web]

  1. Netizens: On the History and Impact of the Net (1996)
    by Ronda and Michael Hauben (1973-2001)

  2. The Internet: On its International Origins and Collaborative Vision (2004)

  3. The History of UNIX (1994) (linkrot)

  4. (Michael's web)

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