The internet, a system of interconnected computer networks which span the world, is an integral part of the information age. It began as a US government communication in the late 1960s and grew technologically into a network used routinely by more than 25% of the world's population.
Regular Websites
A Brief History of the Internet
This thumbnail profile of the internet includes, as the title says, a brief history, beginning in the early 1960s, discussion of dialup modems, a glossary of internet terms, and links to other resources. - A Brief History of the Internet
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html
The focus of this website is the history of the internet with issues such as what it was like in the beginning, the transition to widespread infrastructure, commercialization of the technology, and a timeline. - All About the Internet
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
Computer History Museum: Internet History Exhibits
Contains a timeline of ARPA beginning in 1962, exhibits from that time on, including photographs of SAGE consoles, satellites, and key people in the formation and development of the internet. - Computer History Museum: Internet History Exhibits
http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/
Roads and Crossroads of the Internet History
This internet history goes back further than most: to 1866. It discusses the advent of the Space Age with the launch of Sputnik, and the logical map of ARPANET. - Roads and Crossroads of the Internet History
http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
Presents key milestones of the history of the internet, from 1969 to 2009. Topics include Arpanet, UNIX, email, Project Gutenberg, TCP/IP, the PC modem, the advent of the BBS, the earliest spam, the first emoticom, virtual communities, IRC, the launching of AOL, and the World Wide Web. - The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/
The What, Why, and How of the 1988 Internet Worm
Chronicles the history of the first known worm (some say it was a virus) on the internet. It was written by Robert Tappan Morris, who was a doctoral student at Cornell and, more significantly, was the the son of Robert Morris, the founding father of Unix. - The What, Why, and How of the 1988 Internet Worm
http://www.snowplow.org/tom/worm/worm.html