How the Web Was Won

Vanity Fair by Keenan Mayo, Peter Newcomb | Jun. 5, 2008 (Special Report)

Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign. Each breakthrough--network protocols, hypertext, the World Wide Web, the browser--inspired another as narrow-tied engineers, long-haired hackers, and other visionaries ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Sci/Tech, U.S., Business
Topics: Internet, Department of Defense, Innovation
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Jun 5, 2008 - 8:35 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Kaizar Campwala (review), Fabrice Florin (review), Tom Maertens (review), Anthony Phillips (review), Kevin Doyle Jones (review)
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 by Kevin Doyle Jones - Jun. 5, 2008

14,000 words, but a pretty good history of the internet by the people who built it.

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 by Tom Maertens - Jun. 5, 2008

This is the history of the Internet with most of the early participants going on record. The piece sounds authentic to me and well balanced. It has little to do with the current political scene except the part about the government being responsible, thanks to ARPA, for creating the Internet.

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 by Fabrice Florin - Jun. 5, 2008
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Kaizar posted this story.
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 by Anthony Phillips - Jun. 5, 2008

Good (if short) history of How It All Happened. Looks very reliable and has already cleared up a couple of misconceptions for me.

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