On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Guillaume Latzko-Toth<latzko-toth.guillaume@uqam.ca> wrote:
Here are my two favorite references about Internet history: ...
Here are some useful links about the history of social software: 1. Christopher Allen. Life with alacrity: Tracing the evolution of social software. October 2004. http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/10/tracing_the_evo.html 2. Randy Bush. Fidonet: technology, tools, and history. Commun. ACM, 36(8):31–35, 1993. ISSN 0001-0782 DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/163381.163383 3. Tim O’Reilly. What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. Communications & Strategies, No. 1, p. 17, First Quarter 2007. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1008839 4. Marc A. Smith. Invisible Crowds in Cyberspace: Mapping the Social Structure of the Usenet. 1999 http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?pubid=798 Strictly speaking, resources listed above are about another topic than the history of Internet that the original poster asked about. Yet, it would be interesting to learn what sources you use for a "history of social software / social web". Thanks, Uldis [ http://sioc-project.org | http://captsolo.net/ ]