Chapter Two: From ARPANET to� World Wide Web

[pynchonoid]

We must not be too distracted by the clunkiness of the
means of surveillance current in Winston Smith's era.
In "our" 1984, after all, the integrated circuit chip
was less than a decade old, and almost embarrassingly
primitive next to the wonders of computer technology
circa 2003, most notably the internet, a development
that promises social control on a scale those quaint
old 20th-century tyrants with their goofy moustaches
could only dream about.
-Thomas Pynchon, Foreword to _1984_


Chapter Two: From ARPANET to  
World Wide Web 

Richard T. Griffiths (Leiden University) 

[...] ARPANET is still the backbone to the entire
system. When, in 1982 it finally adopts the TCP/IP the
Internet is born... a connected set of networks using
the TCP/IP standard. [...]

continues:
<http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap2.htm>





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