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Footnotes

Who Invented the Internet?

Readers interested in the history of the Net would be well-advised to obtain Hafner and Lyons' book cited above. See also Hobbes' Official Internet Timeline" as well as my article in Internet World magazine on the history of the Web.

As a companion to the PBS television program "Life on the Internet," the PBS Web site offers a nifty and informative little Internet timeline in the form of an interactive Java applet.

You may also wish to consult the May/June and July/August issues of OnTheInternet, which includes an article on the history of the Net by a number of pioneers including Cerf and his colleagues Barry Leiner, David Clark, Bob Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel Lynch, Jon Postel, Larry Roberts, and Stephen Wolff.

The author of the Times article that inspired today's column was John Markoff. Markoff is known as one of the best writers on computing today. As it happens, I corresponded with Markoff numerous times during 1992 and 1993 as Gopher emerged and yielded to the Web. Just recently I contacted Xerox PARC for an article I'm writing for New Media magazine, and PARC's press officer told me how much they care that reporters get the stories right. "Our favorite reporter is John Markoff; he always gets it right." So my apologies to Mr. Markoff, whose writing is usually exemplary, for quibbling with a tiny phrase in his article.