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Sample Web Essay - Page 6

Student: James Higginson
Course: An Introduction to the Internet


Resources

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Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards stay up late - Touchstone Publications- 1998

Katz, John, "Mourning the Father of the Internet" - 27/10/98 -
<http://www.freedomforum.org/technology/1998/10/27katz.asp>
(visited 30 August 2000)

Rodriguez, Karen, "Plenty deserve credit as 'father' of the Internet" - 25/10/99
<http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/1999/10/25/newscolumn2.html>
(visited 30 August 2000)

The Corporation for National Research Initiatives, "Robert E Kahn biography" - 18/08/00
<http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/bios/kahn.html>
(visited 30 August 2000)

Worldcom, "Vinton G Cerf - Personal Prospective"
<http://www.wcom.com/about_the_company/cerfs_up/personal_prospective/>
(visited 30 August 2000)

The Internet Engineering Task Force
<http://www.itef.org>

Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" - May 1974 -
<http://www.wcom.com/about_the_company/cerfs_up/technical_writings/>
(visited 30 August 2000)

The Internet Society (ISOC)
<http://www.isoc.org>

Robert Hobbes' Zakon, "Hobbes' Internet Timeline v5.1" - 01/07/00
<http://www.isoc.org/zakon/internet/history/hit.html>
(visited 30 August 2000)

Worldcom, "Cerfs Up: Internet History"
<http://www.wcom.com/about_the_company/cerfs_up/internet_history/>
(visited 30 August 2000)

Whatis.com
<http://www.whatis.com>

Open University - T171 Course Material
<http://www.open.ac.uk>
N.B. I did email Vint Cerf at http://www.worldcom.com to find out if he is comfortable with the title "father of the Internet". Unfortunately, as of 01/09/2000, I have not received a reply.


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