Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?

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Post by jwbensley » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 10:15 AM UTC

I urge you to watch this video. This is a great talk from a networking legend: "Network Protocols: Myths, Missteps, and Mysteries" by Radia Perlman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfiMBegejQM

These videos are part of an ongoing series about the history of the Internet in UK but there are general industry history facts that are interesting independent of whether you're in the UK:

https://www.uknof.org.uk/history.html

You also can't go wrong with the TCP/IP Illustrated books (there are 3 volumes in total, I think 2nd edition is the most recent) although, they are very in depth if yii only want an overview:

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/TCP_IP_Illustrated_Th...

Re: Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?

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Post by n_t » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 1:42 PM UTC

hliyan wrote: post #39

Twenty years on, Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia is still my go-to resource for a human readable understanding of what makes the Internet tick: https://www.freesoft.org/CIE/

Never knew about it. Really good for quick introduction and revision. Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?

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Post by ebcode » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

Werner Herzog's "Lo and Behold" is a gem of a documentary that details a bit of this. It is wide-ranging and sheds light on various impacts that the internet is having on our civilization.

Re: Ask HN: Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?

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Post by droidist2 » Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 8:24 PM UTC

yathern wrote: post #6

yodon wrote: post #5

Perhaps not exactly what you're looking for, but from a historical perspective The Cuckoo's Egg does a wonderful job of capturing what the state of networking was in the late 1980's

Definitely highly recommend! Also check out what Clifford (if I remember his name correctly) is up to these days! He sells Klein bottles and builds little robots to help him. Definitely someone I want to be when I grow up haha.

Ohh, he's the Silicon Snake Oil guy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Snake_Oil