Historical "Birds-Eye" View of Internet Systems
Visionaries
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, 1945.
Douglas Engelbart,
Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (139 page report),
1962.
Toward Augmenting the Human Intellect and Boosting our Collective
IQ (ACM paper 1995)
DC Engelbart, C Douglas -
Cited by 40
The seven ages of information retrieval
M Lesk -
View as HTML -
Cited by 11
This paper gives a 1995 view of the progress since Vannevar's
paper, and the things to come
History
W3C History of WWW
Nice web page of history including Berners-Lee document trying to talk people
into it. This document is on the reading list for one of Kleinberg's courses.
(Here's the history in web powerpoint form with lots of pics:
http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/w3c10-HowItAllStarted/).
Tim-Berner's Lee FAQ -- Nice discussion of history and other things.
Movies