Re: [Air-L] what sources do you use for a "history of the Internet"?
Here are my two favorite references about Internet history: Abbate, J. (1999). Inventing the Internet. Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT Press. Salus, P. H. (1995). Casting the Net : from ARPANET to Internet and Beyond. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. The following is a shorter, interesting text reproduced in several publications and languages; you will find some PDF versions of it quite easily on the Web by searching its title: King, J. L., Grinter, R. E., & Pickering, J. M. (1997). The Rise and Fall of Netville: The Saga of a Cyberspace Construction Boomtown in the Great Divide. In S. Kiesler (Ed.), Culture of the Internet (pp. 3-33). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Guillaume 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 I have the following sources, which a) seem outdated and b) not sufficiently scholarly.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 ( [1]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 ([2] 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. -- ~~~~~ Sam Ladner, PhD Sociologist Toronto _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [3]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [4]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [5]http://www.aoir.org/ References 1. http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html 2. http://www.w3.org/History.html 3. http://aoir.org/ 4. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org 5. http://www.aoir.org/
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/ ]
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