# The Story of the Internet

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**Created:** [September 18, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://noobish.me/t/the-story-of-the-internet/278 "2022-09-18T22:21:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://noobish.me/t/the-story-of-the-internet/278/1 "2022-09-18T22:21:43Z")

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Properly told, telling the true and complete story will require many authors, each telling their own firsthand stories within this larger story. Those of us who have lived it will not be around forever and so it is up to us to document the true stories and lessons learned for future history. One goal of this site is to develop a public forum customized for this purpose, to be hosted at [https://storyoftheinternet.org](https://storyoftheinternet.org). You can learn more about that here…

> [@About the Stories category...](http://noobish.me/t/about-the-stories-category/12):
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> One goal of this site is to configure a [Discourse Forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-new-user-guide/96331) as an open-source, [crowdsourced](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing) storytelling platform at the domain [https://story.pub](https://story.pub) For example… A model of a classic timeline-based storytelling tool is [TimelineJS](https://knightlab.northwestern.edu/projects/) wherein a single author presents a chronology of events as a series of slides, often presenting historical people, events and facts through various multimedia items embedded within the slides… On this forum we use a Story category as our top-level c…

[![ihof-brief-history-of-the-internet](https://noobish.me/uploads/default/original/1X/fdb68c0030dd7b900086c10f7f3549bf9da0f89b.png)](https://www.internethalloffame.org/brief-history-internet)

> **[A Brief History of the Internet - Internet Society](https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/)**
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> Read a brief history of the Internet—from those who made it. Learn about its origins, concepts, documentation, and more.

[![ihof-internet-living-history-timeline](https://noobish.me/uploads/default/original/1X/40f4375c215c6da9f42cb545724c3d504cecf712.png)](https://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timeline)

> **[A People’s History of the Internet | HackerNoon](https://hackernoon.com/a-peoples-history-of-the-internet-f8e8690882d9)**
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> Around 1776, a group of people in the Thirteen American Colonies discovered that by creating a nation, a story of the future United States, that they could join millions of strangers together to fight for a common cause. Stories of these Founding...

[![hobbes-internet-timeline-25](https://noobish.me/uploads/default/original/1X/3c06df5725127f811b0b1534ed24a78ce599298e.png)](https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/)

> **[History of the Internet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet)**
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> The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks. The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France.
> Computer science was an emerging discipline in the late 1950s that began to consider time...

> **[The History of the Internet in a Nutshell (Timeline)](https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/)**
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> The internet may seem like a new thing, but its history spans back to the 1960s! Learn about the history of the internet from the 1960s to now!

> **[Internet History Timeline: ARPANET to the World Wide Web](https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html)**
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> The internet history timeline shows how today's vast network evolved from the initial concept

> **[The Invention of the Internet - Inventor, Timeline & Facts](https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet)**
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> The Internet got its start in the United States more than 50 years ago as a government weapon in the Cold War. Unlike technologies such as the light bulb or the telephone, the Internet has no single “inventor.” Instead, it has evolved over time.

> **[How the Internet Has Changed Everyday Life | OpenMind](https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/internet-changed-everyday-life/)**
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> The Internet has dramatically revolutionized many different fields. It has become a global means of communication in our everyday lives.

> **[It's 2023: Is the Internet Broken (again, really)?](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-2023-internet-really-broken-again-jen-wallace/)**
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> In 2005 The Internet Broke (in case you missed that.) This 2023 Google search portends that the Internet is now broken again.
