With the Wayback Machine you can surf the Web as it was. Web pages collected since 1996 by Alexa. The Internet Library offers special historical collections.
Overview of technologies developed in World War II that would eventually
make the Internet possible, the
concept of packet switching, early applications in the corporate world, and global adoption.
UCLA professor who created the basic principles of packet switching. His official site features links to information about how the Internet was born, biographical information and a bibliography.