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History of Networking

A Brief History of Networking - silkroad.com
  http://www.silkroad.com/net-history.html
Hobbes' Internet Timeline v6.1 by Robert H'obbes' Zakon
  http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
A Brief History of the Internet in Australia
  http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/OzIHist.html
A Brief History of Computing- Internet and Networking by Stephen White
  http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history/timeline-NET.html
Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling
  http://w3.aces.uiuc.edu/AIM/scale/nethistory.html
A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN by Ben Segal
  http://ref.cern.ch/CERN/CNL/2001/001/tcpip/
A Brief History of the Internet - by the Internet society
  http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
he Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  http://foldoc.hld.c64.org/
Dr. George Robert Stibitz, pioneer of digital computing and remote job entry.
  http://www2.fht-esslingen.de/.../stibitz.html
Fathers of Invention - They created the first computer network, 30 years ago.
  https://www.business2.com/.../0,1640,13175,00.html
Timeline of Australian and International computing history
  http://www.terrigal.net.au/~acms/timeline.htm

Colossus
  http://www.picotech.com/applications/colossus.html
  http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/index.htm

CSIRAC
  http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/.../techinfo.asp
  http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/guides/csirac/

Other
  http://www.bobbemer.com/CONCEPTS.HTM
  http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Internet.History.1.html

Why set up a network?

email
  http://www.caube.org.au/spamstats.html

browsers
  W3C organisation
take a tour of HTML
  http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide
Mozilla
  http://www.mozilla.org
Internet Explorer
  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp
Netscape
  http://www.netscape.com
Opera
  http://www.opera.com/
Safari
  http://www.apple.com/safari/
iCab
  http://www.icab.de/

Sharing Resources and Services
software deployment
  Norton's Ghost

OSI Model

  http://computer.howstuffworks.com/osi.htm
  http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt

Connecting Up

Protocols

telnet
  http://www.tucows.com
smtp
  http://www.mailwasher.net/
http
  http://www.php.net/
  msdn.microsoft.com/asp
  Cascading Style Sheets
nntp
  http://groups.google.com/

Technology

nic
  Industry Standard Architecture

Network Types

Topologies

Topology theory base from the UK's GCSE ICT module.
  http://www.ictgcse.org.uk/th_topo1.htm

Issues

Design Factors

Economic effects of using a network

General

Wikipedia
  http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network
  http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network
How stuff works
  http://computer.howstuffworks.com/
Networking Fundamentals
  http://crash.umm.com.my/westnet/Fundamentals/
An educator's guide to school networks
  http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/network/default.htm
NSW HSC Information Processes and Technology
  http://hsc.csu.edu.au/ipt/
NSW HSC Information Technology
  http://hsc.csu.edu.au/info_tech/index.htm
Computers in Education Group of South Australia - IT Teaching Resources
  http://www.sace.cegsa.sa.edu.au/Content/...ITStudies
Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia - Technology
  http://www.ssabsa.sa.edu.au/tech/index.php

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