Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet

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.

Background

In 1989, Ed Krol 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, 1993) [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].

See also

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

References

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

External links

• e-text of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet at Project Gutenberg
• 1987 Plain text version, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
• RFC 1118 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet