Donn Seeley tells the story of the Internet Worm of 1988 and how it effectively shut down the Internet. Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Technical Conference, San Diego, California, January 1989.

Cheryl Gribble gives a clear outline with bibliography and links to related sites.

Science fiction author Bruce Sterling recounts the early history of ARPAnet and the Internet in this 1993 article.

Scott Ruthfield explores the beginnings of the Internet, development of IMPs and packet-switching, ARPAnet, TCP/IP, and NSFNet, with references.

Scholarly article by Jesper Vissing Laursen on the development of the Internet.

A thesis with bibliography written in 1993 by Henry Edward Hardy.

Yahoo group dedicated to the preservation of the history of the online world in the days before the Web (pre-1990). Text files, old buffer dumps, BBS discussions, buffers, or anything related to this era is welcome.

Steven Hartley covers topics such as IMP, Packet Switching, ARPAnet, and TCP/IP.

The story behind HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found, and Room 404 at CERN. Wait for the real page to load.

Microsoft explains the origins of the web in ArpaNet, the contribution of Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Consortium and domain names.