• 1996 – A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace – John Perry Barlow
• 1999 – The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach (pages 501-511 – first 10 pages) – Lawrence Lessig

Internet history

Thanks to Iñigo Medina and the BIE for the links.

Key works

• 1945 – As We May Think – Vannebar Bush
• 1961 – Information Flow in Large Communication Nets – Leonard Kleinrock
• 1964 – On Distributed Communications – Paul Baran
• 1968 – The Computer as a Communication Device – J.C.R. Licklider
• 1993 – How the Internet came to be – Vint Cerf
• 1996 – Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet – Katie Haffner
• 1996 – Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon 1962-1986 – Arthur Norberg
• 1997 – Usenet History mailing list archive covering 1990-1997. – Bruce Jones (archiver)

Internet histories

• A brief history of the future. The origins of the Internet – John Naughton
• Internet Histories – Internet Society
• Internet History – LivingInternet

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