The Internet
- Internet Architecture Board [IAB]
- Internet Engineering Task Force [IETF]
Large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet - Internet Society [ISOC]
ISOC Mission Statement: "To assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world." - World Wide Web Consortium [W3C]
Founded to develop common protocols to enhance the interoperability and lead the evolution of the World Wide Web
- Brief History of the Internet
- Internet History (Yahoo!)
A list of histories. - The World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future
Paper from 1996 by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web - w3 history
A little history of the WWW.
- DomainStats.com
Counts the total number of domains registered -- updated daily - Internet Domain Survey
Another attempt to count the number of hosts on the Internet - Internet Related Statistics
Links compiled by the Internet Society - Internet Statistics and Demographics (Yahoo!)
- Internet Traffic Report
Monitors the flow of data around the world - Netcraft Web Server Survey
Find out the most popular brands of web server software, and what the top 40 requested domains are running - NUA Internet Surveys
Articles by industry, demographics, as well as an estimate of how many users worldwide are "online"