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.
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.
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.