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Web Developer Resource Index: History

The History of the Internet and the Web provides the developer with a better sense of how technology has evolved up to the present, and a fresh perspective on what to expect in the future. Too often, in my opinion, people in this industry are near-sighted and don’t appreciate the efforts made by many unsung visionaries from the past, or worse, are only concerned with financial profit or other personal gain.

I stand up and say, without Bill Joy, Larry Wall, Tim Berners-Lee, and countless other people who worked hard, and often with little recognition, you wouldn’t have an Internet or Web to make money with!

The Web is an incrediable resource, with endless potential.

Updated: Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 @ 1:53 AM EDT

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1.Calson Analytics Profile: Evolution of the Web

This profile looks at the history of the Internet and of the Web, one of the net's major components. It also points to writing about some of the major players in the fight to shape the Web's future. [95]
★★★★☆
URI:http://caslon.com.au/webprofile2.htm
Author:
Staff
[1]
Reviewed:Thursday, April 7th, 2005 @ 12:19 AM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

Calson Analytics Profile: Evolution of the Web history internet web
2.What is Web 2.0?

Conceptually, Web 2.0 is not about new interfaces or programming techniques like AJAX, it's about the power of collaboration that drives software, or the "Architecture of Participation." Look at the success of Wikipedia, del.icio.us, or Mozilla Firefox. [1551]
★★★★★
URI:http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-2...
Author:
Tim O'Reilly
[1]
Reviewed:Friday, November 11th, 2005 @ 12:32 AM EST
by:
Douglas Clifton

What is Web 2.0? history innovators web
3.Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine, a service from the Internet Archive and Alexa Internet, allows people to access and use archived versions of stored Web sites. [179]
★★★★★
URI:http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Author:
Internet Archive
[1]
Reviewed:Sunday, April 10th, 2005 @ 4:31 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

Wayback Machine history repository web
4.Weaving the Web

The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web, by its inventor. [100]
★★★★★
URI:http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/Overview.html
Author:
Tim Berners-Lee
[5]
Reviewed:Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 @ 5:31 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

Weaving the Web cern history hypertext w3c web www
5.History of the Internet

From Finland, home of Nokia, Linux, IRC, ssh and nic.funet.fi, is this graphical timeline and history of the Internet. If you don't know what FUNET (Finnish University and Research Network) is, then you probably are due for an Internet history lesson. [1527]
★★★★☆
URI:http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/en/
Author:
Harri K. Salminen
[1]
Reviewed:Friday, September 2nd, 2005 @ 11:50 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

History of the Internet history internet timeline
6.The Most Important Software Innovations

A timeline, from Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, ca 1837, to the Search Engine spiders of the mid-90's. Along the way: hypertext, networks, the mouse and GUI, OOP, markup, regular expressions, email, Unix, font algorithms, DNS, the Web, patterns... [1518]
★★★★☆
URI:http://dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html
Author:
David A. Wheeler
[2]
Reviewed:Saturday, August 27th, 2005 @ 8:08 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

The Most Important Software Innovations computers gui history innovators internet oop search software timeline web
7.We Are the Web

A decade ago, Netscape went public, blasting the Web into everyday life. Now, Wired talks to the inside players -- from Marc Andreessen to Shawn Fanning to Steve Jobs -- about 10 years of boom, bust, and sock puppets. [1438]
★★★★☆
URI:http://wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html
Author:
Kevin Kelly
[1]
Reviewed:Thursday, July 28th, 2005 @ 1:50 AM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

We Are the Web history netscape web
8.The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History

Using an informal but effective summary format, the author traces the early history of the Internet and the Web starting with the first transatlantic communications cable in 1858, through growth statistics circa 2001. Informative, and an easy read. [1356]
★★★★☆
URI:http://netvalley.com/intval1.html
Author:
Gregory Gromov
[1]
Reviewed:Thursday, June 30th, 2005 @ 4:35 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History history internet timeline web www
9.TI Interactive Timeline

Jack Kilby passed away June 20th, 2005, and although he never became a houshold name, he should have. Trace the history of the integrated circuit with this nicely done interactive Flash timeline. Hint: events start to get very interesting around 1958. [1325]
★★★★☆
URI:http://ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/timeline/popup.htm
Author:
Texas Instruments
[1]
Reviewed:Thursday, June 23rd, 2005 @ 11:17 AM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

TI Interactive Timeline computers history innovators timeline
10.A History of the GUI

Doug Engelbart, Xerox PARC, Smalltalk, the first Mac...unless you're using an ancient character-mode computer and these words aren't ringing any bells, then perhaps you should spend a little time learning how the modern interface was born. [1114]
★★★★☆
URI:http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars/1
Author:
Jeremy Reimer
[1]
Reviewed:Sunday, May 8th, 2005 @ 4:14 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

A History of the GUI gui history
11.The World Wide Web

A short history of the beginnings of the Web at CERN, where it was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world. [1065]
★★★★☆
URI:http://public.web.cern.ch/public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/Achieveme...
Author:
CERN Staff
[1]
Reviewed:Thursday, April 28th, 2005 @ 8:43 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

The World Wide Web browser cern history servers web web server www
12.LCS: Architects of the Information Society

The first chapter from the book "Architects of the Information Society: Thirty-Five Years of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT" [255]
★★★★☆
URI:http://www.lcs.mit.edu/about/architects.html
Author:
Simson Garfinkel
[1]
Reviewed:Thursday, April 14th, 2005 @ 7:22 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

LCS: Architects of the Information Society computers history
13.The World-Wide Web: Origins and Beyond

This paper describes some of the historical aspects of the World Wide Web development, as well as the alternative methods of universal information sharing through hypertext, such as the Xanadu project. [178]
★★★★☆
URI:http://www.zeltser.com/web-history/
Author:
Lenny Zeltser
[1]
Reviewed:Sunday, April 10th, 2005 @ 4:20 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

The World-Wide Web: Origins and Beyond history hypertext web www
14.Information Management: A Proposal

The original proposal for the World Wide Web written for CERN management in March of 1989. Hand converted to HTML with original errors intact. [114]
★★★★☆
URI:http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
Author:
Tim Berners-Lee
[5]
Reviewed:Thursday, April 7th, 2005 @ 1:22 AM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

Information Management: A Proposal cern history w3c web www
15.Computer History Museum: Internet History

Another excellent Internet timeline with many photographs, diagrams and other images. [113]
★★★★☆
URI:http://computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/
Author:
Staff and Contributors
[1]
Reviewed:Thursday, April 7th, 2005 @ 12:46 AM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

Computer History Museum: Internet History computers history internet timeline
16.HTMLSource: History of the Net

The Internet and WWW are the greatest telecommunicational breakthrough since the telephone. The enormous growth that the Web has enjoyed in the last decade has come very quickly to a system still in its relative infancy. [102]
★★★★☆
URI:http://yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/historyofthenet.html
Author:
Ross Shannon
[2]
Reviewed:Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 @ 6:05 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

HTMLSource: History of the Net history internet web www
17.The World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future

This paper gives an overview of the history, the current state, and possible future directions for the World Wide Web. [101]
★★★★☆
URI:http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1996/ppf.html
Author:
Tim Berners-Lee
[5]
Reviewed:Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 @ 5:38 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

The World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future cern history hypertext w3c web www
18.A Brief History of the Internet

The Internet represents one of the most successful examples of the benefits of sustained investment and commitment to research and development of information infrastructure. [99]
★★★★☆
URI:http://isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
Author:
ISOC Contributors
[1]
Reviewed:Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 @ 5:15 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

A Brief History of the Internet history internet
19.Internet Timeline

An Internet timeline highlighting some of the key events and technologies that helped shape the Internet as we know it today. [98]
★★★★☆
URI:http://zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
Author:
Robert Zakon
[1]
Reviewed:Friday, April 15th, 2005 @ 1:06 AM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

Internet Timeline history internet timeline
20.History of the Internet

Not the complete history but just the cool stuff. The Internet history from the perspective of a computer geek who likes knowing more than what the instructions simply tell us. [97]
★★★★☆
URI:http://wbglinks.net/pages/history/
Author:
WBG
[1]
Reviewed:Friday, April 15th, 2005 @ 12:46 AM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

History of the Internet history internet
21.History of the Web

In this Primer we hope to give some insight into the needs that led to the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in or around 1989. [96]
★★★★☆
URI:http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/primers/history/origins.htm
Author:
Bob Hopgood
[1]
Reviewed:Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 @ 4:08 PM EDT
by:
Douglas Clifton

History of the Web cern history hypertext web www