[liberationtech] Internet transition to private industry

[Niels ten Oever]

I think these publications approach the topic really well:

This is one _the_ standard works about the history of the Internet:

Abbate, Janet. 1999. Inventing the Internet. Inside Technology. Cambridge, MA etc: The MIT Press.

This is a paper from Abbate specifically on privatization:

———. 2010. “Privatizing the Internet: Competing Visions and Chaotic Events, 1987–1995.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 32 (1).

This paper also has a real matter of fact description, that is very well informed:

Frischmann, Brett. 2001. “Privatization and Commercialization of the Internet Infrastructure.” Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 2: 1–25.

This book is a page turner that demystifies the relation between business, civil society and the military, and their interrelation, in the invention of the Internet:

Turner, Fred. 2006. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

And there is even an RFC on the topic:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1192

Hope this helps.

Niels

PS Am currently writing my PhD on this topic, so feel free to hit me up if you would like me to proof-read or anything!



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