[ih] Sources on Internet history and military connections

[kilnam chon]

recommend to start from kleinrock and possibly dan lynch additionally as
well as barry leiner.

1. kleinrock
    ieee communications magazine in 2011

2. lynch
    internet handbook

3. leiner
    brief history of internet

you can find the exact information and more in http://InternetHistory.asia.
check
Bibliography in Library.

chon

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Guillaume Latzko-Toth <
Guillaume.Latzko-Toth at com.ulaval.ca> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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