Jeremy: Very nice. An Excellent start on the timeline. I note the absence of ENIAC in 1946 - always deserves mention as the first all-electronic computer. Also add the Boston Computer Exchange in 1983 - the first e-commerce business (will be 25 years on March 4, 2008) Alex Randall ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeremy Depauw To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 6:18 AM Subject: Re: [Air-L] internet history timeline It is not perfect, but I've tried to make one myself. You can find it here: http://dev.ulb.ac.be/~jdepauw/Timeline/ It is not official, so do not use it as a trusted source, but you'll find there some clue and idea to handle with your task. I hope it helps, Jeremy 2007/9/7, smork@itu.dk <smork@itu.dk>:

Hi All,

I'm looking for a good history timeline of the internet. I've googled and I find the result bad. Most of them end in the nineties and Hobbes only goes to 2004. They also seem very eclectic and too centered on the US. Do any of you know of a good timeline? What I'm specifically looking for is examples of companies buying up sites with user generated content, one example would be when google acquired the Deja archive of usenet.

Best,

Søren Mørk

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A good history of the Internet is Janet Abbate's "Inventing the Internet," Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000 rev. ed. Scott On 9/8/07, Emma Duke-Williams <emma.dukewilliams@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi All,

I'm looking for a good history timeline of the internet. I've googled and I find the result bad. Most of them end in the nineties and Hobbes only goes to 2004. They also seem very eclectic and too centered on the US. Do any of you know of a good timeline? What I'm specifically looking for is examples of companies buying up sites with user generated content, one example would be when google acquired the Deja archive of usenet.

Best,

Søren Mørk

I've just seen http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms/how-the-social-web-came-to-be-part1.... - which was a link from Steven Downes' OL Daily email.

It's focussing on the "Social" web, but seems to have a reasonable overview of the Internet. (Goes back to 1746, though it's actually dated 1945-2002. Not yet seen part two)

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