Vintage Internet news stories and articles?

October 20, 2009 10:18 AM

I enjoy vintage articles about the early days of the Web. Suggestions?

For example, The Best Cybertech of 1999 isn't exactly from the early early days but it puts into perspective where Google was at the time.

posted by starman to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Best answer: Back issues of Wired, of course! Consistently, breathlessly optimistic about everything until about 2001.
posted by zsazsa at 10:48 AM on October 20, 2009

One specific old Wired article that is a good read is Mother Earth Mother Board, by Neal Stephenson, about laying a fiber optic cable encircling the globe.
posted by TedW at 11:15 AM on October 20, 2009

Not an article, but a great list: the 100 oldest domain names.
posted by The Pantless Wonder at 11:27 AM on October 20, 2009

Not everything is necessarily about the early days of the web, but this may interest you nonetheless: The Suck.com archives.
posted by rocketpup at 12:21 PM on October 20, 2009

Web specifically or Internet and computing culture in general (your title says Internet, question says "Web," which usually refers to just one of the protocols on the Internet...)?

Anyways, sorry to be pedantic. My point is, this may or may not be of interest: textfiles.com.
posted by dubitable at 12:39 PM on October 20, 2009

Response by poster: For me, mostly just the Web, but feel free to post any other articles you like about the early 'net!
posted by starman at 1:09 PM on October 20, 2009

I have the first couple years of Wired Magazines laying around here somewhere. My favorite piece of writing from the early days of the web is Andy Hawks FutureCulture Manifesto, aka the Bubble Manifesto.
posted by IndigoSkye at 5:13 PM on October 21, 2009