Additional Resources

Interested in learning more about computer networks and the Internet? The sections below include links to a variety of content on...

• Conceptual and technical foundations

• Markup languages and HTML

• Cultural histories of the internet

• Identity and power in online spaces

Conceptual and technical foundations¶

• Article 19 and Catnip, How the Internet Really Works: An Illustrated Guide to Protocols, Privacy, Censorship, and Governance (No Starch Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781718500297). Link to access through ND Libraries.

• Tim Berners-Lee, “Information Management: A Proposal”, 1990.

• J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor, “The Computer as a Communication Device,” Science and Technology, April 1968.

• V. Cerf and R. Kahn, “A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 637-648, May 1974.

Markup languages and HTML¶

• James H. Coombs, Allen H. Renear, Steven J. DeRose. (November 1987). “Markup systems and the future of scholarly text processing”. Communications of the ACM 30 (11): 933–947.

• Tim Bray. (April 2003). “On Semantics and Markup, Taxonomy of Markup”. www.tbray.org/ongoing.

• W3C, “Extensible Markup Language (XML)” (16 August 2006)

• Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, “HTML Living Standard” (September 2020)

• Angela M. Haas, “Wampum as Hypertext: An American Indian Tradition of Multimedia Theory and Practice,” Studies in American Indian Literatures 19: 4 (2007).

Cultural histories of the internet¶

• Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 0262511150). Link to access through ND Libraries.

• Paolo Bory, The Internet Myth: From the Internet Imaginary to Network Ideologies (University of Westminster Press, 2020). Link to access through ND Libraries.

• Timelines

  • Barry Leiner, et al, “Brief History of the Internet” Internet Society (1997)

  • Gil Press, “A Very Short History of the Internet and the Web” Forbes (2 January 2015)

Identity and power in online spaces¶

• Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press, 2019). Link to access through ND Libraries.

• Safiya Umoja Noble and Brendesha M. Tynes, eds., The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online (Peter Lang, 2016). Link to access through ND Libraries.

• Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White, eds, Race After the Internet (Routledge, 2013). Link to access through ND Libraries.

• Marisa Elena Duarte, Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country (University of Washington Press, 2017). Link to access through ND Libraries.