Forty-three years ago, in September/October of 1969, a team from Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) installed the first Interface Message Processors (IMPs) at UCLA and Stanford and the first host computer was connected.
Some sites to help in this effort:
Nerds 2.0.1 @ PBS
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/
The intrepid Robert X. Cringely leads you on an adventure, delving into the history of the Internet. Including topics such as: Networking the Nerds, Serving the Suits, Wiring the World, Cast of Characters, Glossary of Geek and a Timeline.
History of the Internet, Internet for Historians (and just about everyone else)
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html
The Internet is an innovation (or rather a series of innovations) that enables communication and transmission of data between computers at different locations. It is an extremely new scientific development, but that does not mean that we cannot analyse it historically, using the concepts that we apply to other innovations in the past.
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
An Internet timeline highlighting some of the key events and technologies that helped shape the Internet as we know it today.
How Internet Infrastructure Works
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/internet-infrastructure.htm
One of the greatest things about the Internet is that nobody really owns it. It is a global collection of networks, both big and small. These networks connect together in many different ways to form the single entity that we know as the Internet.
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