Contents

• Early origins of the internet
• Invention of the World Wide Web
• How the Internet works
• Opening the Internet for commerce
• The "Dot.Com Boom" goes bust
• The societal impact of the Internet
• The future of the Internet
• Marc Andreessen
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Sergey Brin and Larry Page
• Steve Case
• Vinton Cerf
• David Filo and Jerry Yang
• Robert Taylor
• Vinton Cerf recalls the early development of the Internet
• Steve Crocker launches the "Request for Comments" series
• A computer scientist describes the Internet worm of 1988
• The first World Wide Web page with hypertext links
• Tim Berners-Lee remembers inventing the World Wide Web
• A librarian shares the joy of "Surfing" the Internet
• John Perry Barlow’s "Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace"
• Bill Gates discusses the Internet’s potential impact on education
• A newspaper columnist laments the dangers of the Internet