Planning a new project:  THiNK Protocols! 
(Technical Histories of NetworK Protocols)

Consisting of Digital Archives of Key Original Source Documents, 
with Technical Stories about the Design & Implementation

SUMMER 2001 Project Page

Team Members    |   Meeting Notes    |   Key References of the Semester   |   THINK Home

1. Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, THINK Home page, email
2. Chris Ladd (half finished, writing,graduating), webpage, email
3. Chris McCraw (half finished, graduating, writing component), webpage, email
4. Muhammad Umair (almost done, writing component), webpage, email
5. Vishal Gandhi, webpage, email
6. Nirav Assar, webpage, email
7. Nitesh Goyal, webpage, email
8. Michel Diwan, webpage, email
9. Erika Fataniah, webpage, email

1. The THINK Digital Archive Prototype (including my Fall2000 report), with 430 Scanned and OCRed pages.
2. Lam Nguyen's (Spr2000) research on Digital Libraries/Archives
3. Ham Richards set up the Dijkstra digital archive using Bibtex
4. Many CS indexes, such as Henning Schulzrinne's Network Bibliography  uses the BibTeX Format.  But do librarians have a different preferred approach?& nbsp; Where does XML (XSL) fit into all of this?
5. How does Citeseer work?  how did they find all of the info? they seem to have it searchable, and viewable as pdf images, etc.  I found a single pdf file containing the Kahn/Cerf paper.
6. On Henning's page I also found a reference to Citation Thread.  Is this useful at all?
7. What about the bibliography links in the above tools section?????

1. IEN annotated index and access to half of the IENs are at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/ien/ (for the Early Days of TCP/IP)
2. A list of the materials that I received when planning the SIGCOMM99 Technical History of the Internet tutorial.
3. List of Alex McKenzie's Computer networking development records donated to Charles Babbage Institute by Alex McKenzie:  3 cubic feet in 9 boxes of computer networking development records, divided into three series: International Packet Network Working Group (INWG) records, Internet Experiment Notes (IEN) and ARPANET Reports
4. Ben Iglauer's (CS grad student) annotated bibliography of online histories of  Networking and Computing
5. Bernard Aboba's How the Internet Came to Be, an interview with Vint Cerf, who describes several key ideas about TCP/IP and credits many people and the Cyclades network architecture.
6. The Living Internet.com, "the worlds most comprehensive reference about the Internet", this according to the site owner and after perusing the site for awhile you may very well agree. Warning, do not go here unless you have some serious time to spend, once you arrive you may not want to leave. The site is heavily cross-linked and full of very interesting information.
7. Chris E-Y's annotated top 10 list of network links.
8. Henning Schulzrinne's collection of annotated links on Internet History.
9. Dr. Lawrence Robert's Internet history chronology  and homepage.
10. IEEE History Center's links on History of the Internet and homepage.
11. History of the Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet  History by Gregory R. Gromov. A comprehensive overview of the philosophy and history of the Internet. There is a copy of the first ARPANET connection, an early logical map of the ARPANET, as well as a wealth of other information.
12. Internet Timeline from the Internet Time-Line Project
13. Network Encryption - history and patents some links to other encryption links, no real technical information on cryptology on the page, but some good linksl
14. ARPANET Maps: 1969 to 1977, scanned but not OCR'd maps.

An Atlas of Cyberspaces- Historical Maps and Artistic Representations: Historical Maps of ARPANET and the Internet. They present a range of the historical maps of ARPANET, Internet and Usenet, showing how these networks grew and developed from their beginnings in the 1960s.
15. RFC 1 - Host and IMP Software: The very first (?) request for comment.

rfc2555 - 30 Years of RFCs recollections from major players in 30 years of RFC's. Contributors: Joyce K. Reynolds,  Steve Crocker  Vint Cerf, and Jake Feinler.

1. *** Read this combined annotation by Lam Nguyen and Cynthia Leong's (Spr2000) annotated bibliography of "who's doing what in writing the histories of computing".  Cynthia started out searching for History of Science depts, and then Lam expanded her annotations with his own comments, plus added library comments.
2. Ben Iglauer's (Fall2000) nicely annotated bibliography of online histories of Networking and Computing.
3. Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) at The University of Minnesota.

CBI Archival Collection Finding Aids links to finding aids for archives and manuscript collections.
CBI Oral History Collection Interviewee List All oral history interviews are available for use onsite at CBI. Transcripts of most oral histories are available for purchase.
4. IEEE Annals of History of Computing (from 1979-now) available in PCL and also searchable if you go to Electronic Journals, a feature of UT Library Online and click on IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Online (Please note that this link does not work off-campus) To access this service from an off campus computer you will need a UT EID and go to this link http://proxy.lib.utexas.edu/ to set up your web browser so you can access the pages. Even then you will have to access the pages from the Electronic Journals page.

IEEE History Center: The mission of the IEEE History Center is to preserve, research and promote the history of information and electrical technologies. The Center maintains many useful resources for the engineer, for the historian of technology, and for anyone interested in the development of electrical and computer engineering and their role in modern society.
5. History of Programming Languages and Software Engineering (funded by Sloan Foundation) and hosted at American University  (check out structure and archiving).

History of Science Issues

1. Practical Guide from echo on How to Use the Internet to Collect History.
2. New (1999) Project at Charles Babbage Institute: History of Software to develop, organize, and disseminate resources and knowledge on the history of software.
3. See the JSTOR project (Journal STORage) (www.jstor.org) Electronic storage of a very wide range of Journals a quick estimate is greater than 200 journals currently stored.
4. UT Physics Prof's reading list on history of physics Physics 341 Research Methods Reading List, it looks very much like CS 378 for Physics students.
5. UT Austin - History & Philosophy of Science Program, Homepage for the History & Philosophy of Science faculty.
6. The HPS Program, The University of Texas at Austin Program in the History and Philosophy of Science.
7. SHOT: Society for the History of Technology, is concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes, but also with the relations of technology to science, politics, social change, the arts and humanities, and economics.
8. John A. N. (JAN) Lee, computer science historian, http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~janlee/Janlee.html, Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Member, Center for the Study of Science in Society
9. James E. Tomayko, computer science historian at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/MSE/people/tomayko.html