Links

The following links represent other websites that contain information useful to anyone interested in exploring the history of computer communications. It is expected that many of the following links will be found under the sponsors or other the hypertext pages in future releases. Readers are invited to submit links and to encourage others to link to this website.

Individuals:

Gordon Bell is one of the most distinguished computer scientists and managers. While with DEC, for example, he led the creation of both the PDP and VAX series of computers. He has created an indispensable source of scanned documents and texts.

Larry Roberts is one of the giants of computer communications. Most importantly, but far from his only contribution to computer communications, Roberts was program manager for Arpanet while with IPTO of DARPA. He also has created an Internet Chronology website.

Organizations:

The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is the leading archive of information technology and home of one of the largest collections of oral histories. The CBI interviewed many of the individuals interviewed for this site only years later.

The Computer History Museum (CHM) homes the largest collection of historical information technology artifacts and a growing collection of oral and video histories. Funded by the Sloan Foundation, the CHM offers an innovative, on-line history collection of corporations. See especially the Internet History timeline.

The Corporate History Home Page

The Computer History Museum Timeline

The Internet Society offers another comprehensive site for information on the history of the Internet.

The Santa Fe Institute has as a focus the study of the emergence, persistence and demise of social institutions.

Documents:

The Request for Comment (RFC) documents can be found on-line. Home page:

Company information can be found in many places, such as the N. Y. Times on Timeplex