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Here are some links to books, videos, and articles that are either um, by us, or that are super useful to understanding how the internet works and its history. It’s by no means an exhaustive list! We hope it’s useful to you.

Other Cool Educational Projects

Bubblesort Zines by Amy Wibowo are an amazing collection of zines about different aspects of computer science and networking.


Protocol Layer Things

Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, Alex “You Literally Can’t Escape Alex Galloway” Galloway


Physical Layer Things

All of Ingrid’s Beneath the Cloud stories for The Atlantic

How It’s Made: Fiber Optics

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, Andrew Blum

A Prehistory of The Cloud, Tung-Hui Hu

Urban Giants, a short documentary on two major NYC carrier hotels.


Top-Level Domains and DNS

How DNS Works Guide from DNSimple

ICANN’s website on new gTLDs

James Bridle’s Citizen Ex essays on country-code domains

From Yu to Me, a documentary about the former Yugoslavian top-level domain and its demise


More Internet History

A massive dump of interesting PDFs related to internet history from Brett Victor