How the Web Was Won by Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb, Vanity Fair, July 2008 issue
My goodness - Vanity Fair - article on the history of the Internet. It has been 50 years since the US government set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which ultimately developed the first internet.
"To observe this year’s twin anniversaries, Vanity Fair set out to do something that has never been done: to compile an oral history, speaking with scores of people involved in every stage of the Internet’s development, from the 1950s onward. From more than 100 hours of interviews we have distilled and edited their words into a concise narrative of the past half-century—a history of the Internet in the words of the people who made it."
There's text and audio in the 8 chapters.
Posted by Gwen at June 15, 2008 12:48 AM