How the Internet Came to Be

by Vinton Cerf, as told to Bernard Aboba
Copyright (C) 1993 Vinton Cerf. All rights reserved. May be reproduced in any medium for noncommercial purposes.
This article appears in "The Online User's Encyclopedia," by Bernard Aboba, Addison-Wesley, November 1993, ISBN 0-201-62214-9

• How the Internet came to be: The birth of the ARPANET
• How the Internet came to be: The birth of the Internet
• How the Internet came to be: The Internet takes off
• How the Internet came to be: On scaling
• How the Internet came to be: On use by other networks