1. Matvey B. Palchuk, Introduction to the Internet, URL: http://www1.pitt.edu/~mapst57/course/interint.htm. Link provides excellent overview and concise description of Paul Baran's basic packet network design assumptions. Link mirrored locally for speed and reliability; link to original source above.
2. Robert H'obbes' Zakon, Hobbes Internet Timeline v2.5, URL: http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html. Link provides authoritative chronology of Internet. Link mirrored locally for speed and reliability; link to original source above.
3. Jack Ricard, Internet Architecture. Originally in Boardwatch Magazine; URL: http://www.boardwatch.com/isp/archit.htm. Link provides good overview of early NSFNET and current internet architecture. Link mirrored locally for speed and reliability; link to original source above.
4. Gordon Cook, The Cook Report: Special on NSFNET Privatizaiton. URL: http://pobox.com/cook/p.part3.html. This 7-part report covers the period 1989-1993 of NSFNET, the relationship of ANS and the NSF, and the privatization of NSFNET in detail.
5. Merit Network, Inc, Press Release. Merit Retires NSFNET Backbone Service." URL: gopher://nic.merit.edu:7043/0/nsfnet/nsfnet.retired. Background info regarding retirement of NSFNET Backbone Services and new Internet Architecture.
6. Merit Network, Inc. NSFNET Archives. Site gives overview of Merit Network, Inc.'s involvement with NSFNET.
7. Advanced Networks and Services, Inc. About ANS. Site gives overview of ANS' involvement with NSFNET.
8. National Science Foundation. NSFNET. Site gives overview of current NSFNET projects with emphasis on current Internet architecure and activities supporting same.
9. Sprint, Inc. Sprint Internet Services.
10. MCI, Inc. WWW.MCI.NET Home Page.
11. BBN, Inc. BBN On The World Wide Web.
12. UUNET, Inc. UUNET Technologies Home Page.
13. CERFnet, Inc. CERFnet: Internet Solutions for Business.
15. National Laboratory for Applied Network Research. vBNS collaboration.
16. National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications. NREN -- National Research and Education Network.
17. MFS Communicatoins Company, Inc. MFS Communications MAE Information.
19. Cerf, Vinton G, and Robert Kahn. "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication". IEEE Transactions on Communications; v. COM-22, pp. 637-648, May 1974. Groundbreaking work on interconnection of diverse computer networks.
20. Sterling, Bruce. "Internet". From The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1993, F&SF Science Column #5. Article text available on line here. Good (if somewhat dated) nontechnical overview of the Internet.