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Vanity Fair writes the history of the web - June 4, 2008
Eight chapters (22 pages!) from Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb in this month's Vanity Fair on the history of the Internet. It's an oral history, but not one mention of Google? Outrageous!

Michael Arrington weighs in. 

Via Vanity Fair: This year marks the 50th anniversary of an extraordinary moment. In 1958 the United States government set up a special unit, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (arpa), to help jump-start new efforts in science and technology. 

This was the agency that would nurture the Internet. This year also marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of Mosaic, the first widely used browser, which brought the Internet into the hands of ordinary people.

To observe this year’s twin anniversaries, Vanity Fair set out to do something that has never been done: to compile an oral history, speaking with scores of people involved in every stage of the Internet’s development, from the 1950s onward. From more than 100 hours of interviews we have distilled and edited their words into a concise narrative of the past half-century—a history of the Internet in the words of the people who made it.

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ashcroft
June 4, 2008
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Vanity Fair writes the history of the web

nice photo!