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	History of the Internet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Internet's roots lie within the ARPANET, which not only was the intellectual forerunner of the Internet, but was also initially the core network in the collection of networks in the Internet; it was also an important tool in developing the Internet (being used for communication between the groups working on internetworking research).
		One of the Internet applications many people are most familiar with is the World Wide Web, with many people thinking that it is the only possible use of the Internet.
		A Brief History of NSF and the Internet
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Internet (2751 words)

	Internet, the on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Internet evolved from a secret feasibility study conceived by the U.S. Dept. of Defense in 1969 to test methods of enabling computer networks to survive military attacks, by means of the dynamic rerouting of messages.
		In 1995, however, the NSF decommissioned the NSFnet, and responsibility for the Internet was assumed by the private sector.
		Internet pornography: a social psychological perspective on internet sexuality.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/I/Internet.asp (1271 words)

	INTERNET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Internet is moving out of its original base in military and research institutions, into elementary and high schools, as well as into public libraries and the commercial sector.
		Internet mail is "e-mail," electronic mail, faster by several orders of magnitude than the US Mail, which is scornfully known by Internet regulars as "snailmail." Internet mail is somewhat like fax.
		Internet file-transfers are becoming a new form of publishing, in which the reader simply electronically copies the work on demand, in any quantity he or she wants, for free.
	www.lysator.liu.se /etexts/the_internet.html (3192 words)

	Internet - Simple English Wikipedia
		The Internet was created in the United States in 1969 by the "United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency" (known as ARPA).
		The Internet is used for many things, such as electronic mail (e-mail), online chat, and the World Wide Web.
		Some parents block parts of the Internet they think are bad for children to see.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internet (408 words)

	World History Compass Home Page
		History, culture, and literature of Arkansas and surrounding regions.
		A project that attempts to provide a cross-section of Boone portrayals, and attempts to place their points of view in historical context, based on the idea that a culture's myths and heroes explain who they are, and the true historical personages are less important than the image they become.
		History and archaeology of the Spanish fort and town of Santa Elena on Port Royal Sound in South Carolina.
	www.worldhistorycompass.com (2385 words)

	Internet History - Invention of the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Internet and Transmission Control Protocols were initially developed in 1973 by American computer scientist Vinton Cerf as part of a project sponsored by the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and directed by American engineer Robert Kahn.
		Internet technology is a primitive precursor of the Information Superhighway, a theoretical goal of computer communications to provide schools, libraries, businesses, and homes universal access to quality information that will educate, inform, and entertain.
		Charles Jonscher argues that to understand the true transformative powers of new technologies, we must know about the long history of their development and realize that it is the creativity and flexibility of the human mind that will always shape the new technology and the ways we use it, not the other way around.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story070.htm (1446 words)

	WWW-VL: History: Internet History W3: worldwideweb, I-Net, Arpanet, Intel, Apple, IBM
		Nethistory [Informal history of BITNET and the Internet]
		The History of the Internet for Historians [NL]
		Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet (1996), by Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben
	vlib.iue.it /history/internet (1413 words)

	Internet History - Internet Encyclopedia - eLook.org
		UNIX deserves at least an honorable mention, since almost all the initial Internet protocols were developed first for UNIX, largely due to the availability of kernel source (for a price) and the relative ease of implementation (relative to things like VMS or MVS).
		NSF decided to base their network on the Internet protocols, and NSFNET was born.
		The 1987 Internet Worm was the largest security failure in the history of the Internet.
	www.elook.org /internet/57.html (1703 words)

	The Math Forum - Math Library - Internet-Based Projects
		Projects that use realtime data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that use the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world.
		A collaborative project designed to give students in grades 3-5 an opportunity to use patterns to create two different styles of paper airplanes and determine which type of paper airplane will fly the greatest distance and stay aloft the longest time.
		Projects by students of Nils Ahbel at the Kent School in Connecticut.
	mathforum.org /library/resource_types/projects (2355 words)

	Social Studies Development Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		National Women's History Project Features the NWHP catalog, ideas for teachers, librarians, parents, students, and others on teaching and learning about women in history, a history quiz, a directory of women's organizations and museums, an events calendar, and more.
		History in Music Lyrics and MIDI files of and details about songs in U.S. history from the American Revolution to the labor movement to the Viet Nam era.
		WestWeb: Western History Resource Collections of primary and secondary documents, biographical and bibliographical resources, lists of links to other sites of interest, and images are provided on topics ranging from transportation, to gender and sexuality, to Asian-Americans, to military history, all in the context of the American West.
	www.indiana.edu /~ssdc/histlinks.htm (4530 words)

	Encyberpedia History by Bob Kerstein
		History of the Roman catacombs, discussion of their importance, notes on Christian symbols from the period, a map and more.
		Encyclopedia (Ecole) Initiative is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the Internet to establish a hypertext encyclopedia of early Church history (to the Reformation) on the World-Wide Web
		This Index is maintained jointly by the Department of History of the University of Kansas and the Lehrstuhl für Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Regensburg
	www.encyberpedia.com /history.htm (2049 words)

	The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Based upon costs incurred by state encyclopedia projects elsewhere and our own projections, a budget of approximately $1.9 million is expected for the full span of the development of the Encyclopedia, through its planned completion in 2010.
		This project will be possible only with the support of a broad base of individual donors, foundations, and private and public organizations.
		From the beginning, the Encyclopedia of Arkansas has been conceived as a project both by and for the state of Arkansas and those who love her.
	www.cals.lib.ar.us /butlercenter/eoa/faq.htm (1163 words)

	History Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She is a specialist in African American history and has been active in women's studies and ethnic studies programs.
		One of the founders of the academic project to study the relationship between law and movies, his books and articles deal with the First Amendment, Hollywood motion pictures and TV shows that represent law, and the history of legal culture in the United States.
		In addition to courses in Russian/Soviet history he teaches courses in modern German history, a joint course with a philosophy colleague on the history and philosophy of socialism, and thematic courses on Europe in the 20th century.
	www.macalester.edu /history/faculty.html (1199 words)

	Internet Public Library: United States History
		This site allows users to "learn about US History through the prism of US presidential campaign ads, better understand the complexities of campaign issues and their historical context by looking at historical events, and explore the meanings of core values." Features historical videos and photographs, including presidential campaign videos.
		The website was created by the National Women's History Project, an educational nonprofit organization, for the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement.
		An encyclopedia exploring the history, social conditions, and contributions of women in the United States.
	www.ipl.org /div/subject/browse/hum30.55.85 (1980 words)

	Eighteenth-Century Resources -- History
		A student project history, literature, and art of the British abolition movement.
		Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789 (Eddie Becker, Holt House)
		"The Documents in German History Project is intended to make available material to students without the requisite language skills to study it in the original." A number of treaties, codes, and declarations in English and German.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/18th/history.html (2838 words)

	Amazon.com: Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Janet Abbate exhaustively researched her scholarly history of the Internet and presents it with the detail and tone you would expect from a historian, which she is. Therefore, don't come looking for a breezy, "gee whiz" approach.
		Janet Abbate is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland in College Park.
		The book's details support Abbate's claim that the Internet was not born in a discrete originating event, but evolved over a twenty-year period through the convergence of technological advances and societal needs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262011727?v=glance (1766 words)

	Edmund Husserl [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The Jewish community of Prossnitz had established a technical school in 1843, and it became a public school for all the town's children in 1869--one year before young Edmund Husserl was sent off to Vienna's Realgymnasium.
		This project is set in motion in # 9, where new terminology is introduced for the threefold distinction first made in "Begriff der Zahl." (However, now that the transcendental reduction is presupposed, the arrow of causality should be removed.
		The pure ego is one with respect to an individual stream of consciousness, that is, before the transcendental reduction has de-individuated the latter (117); however the pure ego is insubstantial and not one whenever the reduction is in effect (128).
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/h/husserl.htm (8563 words)

	Webopedia: The Birth of the Internet
		Most of the advances in technology at the time - cryptography, radar, battlefield communications - were due to military operations during World War II, and it was, in fact, government activities that led to the development of the Internet.
		From the launch of Sputnik and the U.S.S.R. testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was born.
		The Internet was based on the concept that there would be multiple independent networks that began with the ARPAnet as the pioneering packet-switching network but would soon include packet satellite networks and ground-based packet radio networks.
	www.webopedia.com /DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/BirthoftheInternet.asp (301 words)

	WWW.History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The projects are accompanied by essays from the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and are searchable by author, keyword, and title.
		Conceived by Edward Ayers, Hugh P. Kelley Professor of History at the University of Virginia, this site is a massive, searchable archive relating to two Shenandoah Valley counties during the Civil War period--Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania--divided by 200 miles and the institution of slavery.
		The history section contains six historical essays (each between 5,000 to 7,000 words), including the introductory essay "Terror to Triumph," and five themed essays focusing on creating, surviving, resisting, escaping, and transcending Jim Crow oppression from the late-19th-century to the Civil Rights movement.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /browse/wwwhistory (3598 words)

	History - FirstGov for Kids
		If Edison were living today, he would be interested in both the Internet and the World Wide Web, a technology that can now make the legacy of the world's most famous inventor available to you.
		From designs of famous architects to the history of the Wizard of Oz, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
		This PBS site has a timeline covering the history of American concert song as well as information on the writers, composers, artists, and movements that left their mark.
	www.kids.gov /k_history.htm (1296 words)

	Epictetus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The range of topics is sufficiently broad for us to be reasonably confident that, even if some of the text has been lost, what we lack by and large repeats and revisits the material that we have in the book as it has come down to us.
		They will still pursue those 'preferred indifferent external' things that are needed for fulfilling those functions and projects that they deem appropriate for them as individuals, and those they have obligations to meet.
		But they will not be distressed at setbacks or failure, nor at obstructive people, nor at other difficulties (illness, for instance), for none of these things is entirely up to them, and they engage in their affairs in full consciousness of this fact.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/e/epictetu.htm (9297 words)

	Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history
		The term "surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly (:jap:); Brendan Kehoe uses the term "net-surfing" as early as 6 June 1991 in a USENET post (:bt1:)
		The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is established to handle administration and registration of IP numbers to the geographical areas currently handled by Network Solutions (InterNIC), starting March 1998.
		Internet users get to be judges in a performance by 12 world champion ice skaters on 27 March, marking the first time a television sport show's outcome is determined by its viewers.
	www.zakon.org /robert/internet/timeline (8031 words)

	Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Studying Ancient History
		Perseus is perhaps the most ambitious text project on the web.
		More than any other project, though, Perseus is of use to advanced scholars.
		A megasite covering all aspects of Mediterranean and Near-eastern ancient history and culture.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook01.html (735 words)

	Cotse - Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia - Internet History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I always like to start Internet classes with a review of Internet history.
		Don't worry if you don't understand all the terms; the idea is to get a general picture of Internet history.
		For a more lasting solution, IETF is looking at IPv6 and its 64-bit address space, but CIDR is here to stay.
	www.cotse.com /CIE/Course/Section1/2.htm (1874 words)

	Easton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		History of the Jews in the United States (Colonial Era-1906)
		T 1000 his was denied at the time, on the ground that there was no need for it, but was granted a year later.
		version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional encyclopedia used in the works of Douglas Adams.
	bonose.com /Easton-120.html (700 words)

	BUBL LINK: History education
		Preserved materials relate to the study of the ancient Near East and cover such topics as the archaeology, art, history, language, law, and the religions of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, Nubia, Persia, and other ancient peoples of Anatolia and the Fertile Crescent.
		Classics materials span the time from the rise of Bronze Age Aegean culture through the period in the Middle Ages and include volumes relating to the history, art and archaeology of the classical world.
		Provides essays on new media and history, a hyptertext guide to history resources on the Web, reviews of relevant CD-ROM's and software, access to teaching projects, and a listing of related university departments.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/h/historyeducation.htm (952 words)

	A Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling
		Last year the Internet was growing at a rate of twenty percent a month. The number of "host" machines with direct connection to TCP/IP has been doubling every year since 1988.
		Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide
		HTML version prepared by David Clough for Yale Divinity Library from the Internet Society's gopher text.
	www.library.yale.edu /div/instruct/internet/history.htm (3198 words)

	Colonial America 1600-1775, K12 Resources
		Advanced level; history and culture of the Scots Irish settlers of the Cumberland Gap region of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia
		A Hypertext on American History from the Colonial Period until Modern Times; oustanding collection of documents, essays, biographies, presidents
		Brief History of the French and Indian War
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/colonial.htm (2412 words)

	Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
		In addition to direct links to documents, links are made to a number of other web resources.
		The Monk of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China; or The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma, Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Mongol Khans to the Kings of Europe and Markos who as Yahbh-Allaha III Became Patriarch of the Nestorian Church.
		The company still exists, and its homepage presents its history.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html (4483 words)

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