[ih] Sources on Internet history and military connections

[Guillaume Latzko-Toth]

I am looking for state-of-the-art literature on the origins of the
Internet as an engineering project. So far, I have found the following
sources (several of them from this web page:
http://www.caslon.com.au/netprofile3.htm). Some are dated and more
journalistic than academic in nature and "granularity". My intent in
gathering this literature is to get a better sense of the exact role
played by military interests (apart from funding) in Internet development.
We read too often about "the military origins" of the Internet, and even
more often the story of "a military command and control system that would
continue to operate in the event of  nuclear war" (Tehan, 1999). To what
extent is this representation faithful to reality? For instance, Hughes
(1998) notes: "The military funded the ARPANET, but computer scientists
and engineers presiding over the project pushed military goals to the
background, emphasizing the spread of computer utilization and the
development of computer networks as ends in themselves."

Here is my short list of sources. All comments and additions will be much
appreciated.

Abbate, J. (1999). Inventing the Internet. Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT
Press.
Hafner, K., Lyon, M. (1996). Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of
the Internet, New York: Simon & Schuster.
Hughes, T. P. (1998). Rescuing Prometheus, New York: Pantheon Books.
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.
Ryan, J. (2010). A History of the Internet and the Digital Future. Chicago
/ London University of Chicago Press / Reaktion Books.
Salus, P. H. (1995). Casting the Net : from ARPANET to Internet and
Beyond. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
Tehan, R. (1999). Spinning the Web: The History and Infrastructure of the
Internet, Congressional Research Service Report 98-649 C, Washington, DC:
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Guillaume Latzko-Toth