While not necessarily scholarly, the Vanity Fair collection of oral histories concerning the internet does provide some primary material that you might find useful. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/07/internet200807 Best, Jennifer On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Sam Ladner <samladner@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I have run into this problem, yet again, and am still looking for a solution. I'm writing a (very brief) history of the Internet for an article. I have the following sources, which a) seem outdated and b) not sufficiently scholarly.
Leiner, B. et al. 1997. ""The Past and Future History of the Internet." Communications of the ACM, February 1997. Berners-Lee, Tim. 1998, "The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History", Retrieved July 9, 2009, 2009 ( http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html). World Wide Web Consortium. 2007, "A Little History of the World Wide Web", Retrieved February 19, 2007 (http://www.w3.org/History.html).
Can anyone point me in the direction of either more recent or more scholarly sources? I wrestle with using Wikipedia (as many have discussed on this list in the past). I would prefer, at the very least, a pre-press paper from a scholar.
Any help much appreciated. s.
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