By Stephanie Bell

News articles:

USA Today (A news site) - An article by Bruce Haring who asks: "Who really invented the Internet?". Gives a quote from Vint Cerf: "I didn't get to play with this stuff until I was 28," laments Cerf, echoing his colleagues. "I often envy the kids who are 8 years old and hacking the Net. They got to do it 20 years before I did. I had to go off and invent it." http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg000.htm

BBC News - Article: "Clinton Honours Net pioneers" (17.12.97) about Cerf and Kahn. http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_40000/40255.stm

BBC News - Article: "The Wonder of the Web" about John Naughton's book: "A Brief History of the Future". He says of Paul Baran: "he has the strongest claim to be "father of the Internet"". http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_462000/462435.stm

The Daily Telegraph - Article: "Internet pioneer sets sights on new worlds to conquer" (24.12.98) about Vint Cerf. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et...

The Daily Telegraph - Article: "Mouse Inventor Honoured, Robert Uhlig on the Father of the Internet" About Douglas Engelbart. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et...

Book:

Where Wizards stay up late - Authors: Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyons. The publishers: Simon & Schuster's website is at: http://www.simonsays.com/titles/0684812010/wizards.html

Images:

Roberts, Kahn, Licklider & Baran: http://www.simonsays.com/titles/0684812010/pioneers.html  

Vannevar Bush: http://www-home.calumet.yorku.ca/pkelly/www/iworld.htm

Douglas Engelbart: http://www.altavista.com/

Tim Berner-Lee: http://204.202.137.117/sections/tech/netguide/netguide_basics1.html 

(Above images accessed on 25.08.00).

Screen Captures of respective websites made by Stephanie Bell.

Computer and Internet history:

Internet Policy Institute - An article by Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf: "What Is The Internet (And What Makes It Work)" - December, 1999. (accessed on 22.08.00) http://www.internetpolicy.org/briefing/12_99_story.html

The Internet Society - Article "A Brief History of the Internet" by Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch, Jon Postel, Larry G. Roberts, Stephen Wolff. (accessed on 25.08.00) http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html

Ohio State University - includes access to RSCs (Requests for comments) and other technical history. (accessed on 25.08.00) http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/hypertext/information/rfc.html