Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
Author	Ed Krol
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Computer Science
Publisher	National Science Foundation
Publication date	1987

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, by Ed Krol, was published in 1987 through funding by the National Science Foundation. It was the first popular user's guide to the history and use of the Internet. The title was a reference to the popular The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Contents 1 Background 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Background

In 1985, Ed Kroll began working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. During this time, he published (through funding by the National Science Foundation), the online text document, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet (August 25, 1987) [1], "because he had so much trouble getting information and was sick of telling the same story to everyone" [2]. It was eventually published by O'Reilly, though a digital catalog related to the text was published online [3].

[edit] See also

• History of the Internet
• Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog.
• Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks

[edit] References

• Krol, Ed. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet. 25 August 1987

[edit] External links

• e-text of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet at Project Gutenberg
• 1987 Plain text version, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
• Updated 1989 Plain text version, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet