CS5008/CS1069/CS6509 Web links

    Textbook resources

  1. Stallings -- Business Data Communications
  2. Agrawal -- Business Data Communications
  3. FitzGerald, Dennis: Business Data Communications and Networking

    4. Internet History

  4. Internet History - Computer History Museum.
  5. A Brief History of the Internet, Internet Society
  6. A History Of Source Concepts For The Internet/Web Bob Bemer
  7. Global Hypertext system proposal 1989/1990 Tim Berners-Lee
  8. A Little History of the World Wide Web (W3C)
  9. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, Ed Krol 1992 (free e-book)
  10. Hobbes' Internet Timeline v8.2

    11. Local Area Networking

  11. LANs (about.com)
  12. Ethernet (Cisco)
  13. Ethernet Knowledge Base
  14. Ethernet Alliance
  15. Wi-fi Alliance

    16. Networking:TCP/IP

  16. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Overview
  17. An Overview of TCP/IP Protocols and the Internet, Gary C. Kessler
  18. Cisco Internetworking Handbook
  19. TCP and OSI Model

    20. Videos

  20. History of the Internet by PICOL (8 min)
  21. Documentary about ARPANET (31 min)
  22. About an IP packets journey through Net
  23. IP Addressing (for CCNA)

    24. Statistics on Internet

  24. Internet World Stats
  25. Internet Traffic Report
  26. Browser Statisitcs

    Visualizations of Internet

  27. Atlas of Cyberspace
  28. Cuttlefish Visualizer
  29. Fibre-optic submarine cable system (Guardian)

    Utilities/tools

  30. Common networking commands - ping netstat ipconfig arp nslookup tracert
  31. Speed Test
  32. IANA WHOIS Service
  33. IP Location - map IP addresses to country and city names
  34. GTrace - A Graphical Traceroute
  35. IP Subnet/Supernet Calculator

    Standards Bodies/ Internet Organisations

  36. A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies, Alex Simonelis
  37. Internet Engineering Task Force
  38. Internet Society
  39. IAB - Internet Architecture Board
  40. DARPA
  41. ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
  42. Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
  43. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
  44. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  45. Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis

    Numbers Reference

  46. Port Number Assignments
  47. Assigned Internet Protocol Numbers
  48. Top-level Domains (and Country codes)
  49. ICANN-Accredited Registrars
  50. Permanent Message Header Field Names
  51. IP Adresses - IANA Assigned Number Resources

    RFCs

  52. The RFC Editor (maintains the master repository of RFCs)
  53. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Postal, 1980 (RfC768)
  54. TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP) 1981
  55. Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (RFC2616), R. Fielding et al. 1999
  56. Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax (RfC3986), T. Berners-Lee et al. 2005
  57. URIs, URLs, and URNs
  58. Telnet (RfC854)
  59. The Secure Shell (SSH) Authentication Protocol (RfC4252)
  60. The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
  61. SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL - Jonathan B. Postel 1982 (RfC821)

    62. FTP

  62. FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP) J. Postel and J. Reynolds, 1985 (RfC959)
  63. The 'ftp' URI Scheme
  64. List of raw FTP commands
  65. Slide deck on Protocol
  66. Bernstein notes
  67. FTP Guide
  68. FTP section of TCP/IP Guide

    69. HTTP

  69. HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Specs @ W3C
  70. HTTP/1.1 by Jim Gettys
  71. URIs don't change, Tim Berners-Lee 1998
  72. Rex Swain HTTP Viewer
  73. Another HTTP Viewer: Web Sniffer
  74. And aother HTTP Viewer: Hurl It

    75. Email

  75. The History of Electronic Mail, Tom Van Vleck
  76. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
  77. Unofficial IMAP Protocol Wiki

    78. Other Internet Applications

  78. All about telnet
  79. Internet Relay Chat source
  80. H.323
  81. Skype articles
  82. Official Skype site
  83. First Internet radio station
  84. facsimile over IP
  85. Messaging - Messaging API (MAPI)

    86. HTTP-based Applications

  86. RSS - RSS 2.0 at Harvard Law
  87. RSS History
  88. Atom and Rss
  89. hCard
  90. XHTML Friends Network (XFN)
  91. Friend of a Friend (FOAF)

    92. Security/firewalls

  92. Firewalls FAQ
  93. RFC 1135 - The Helminthiasis of the Internet
  94. Snort
  95. A History and Survey of Network Firewalls
  96. UDP flood attack

    97. Miscellaneous/ Curiosity Value

  97. Zen and the Art of the Internet
  98. Early Web Site - W3C (1992)
  99. Original Top-level domains - pre-Web (1984)
  100. Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS)
  101. Lynx text Web browser
  102. Time on the Internet
  103. DNS LOC: Geo-enabling
  104. New to gopher
  105. HTTP<-> Gopher service
  106. Veronica - Gopher search engine [Note: this link uses gopher: not http:]
  107. Unsupported Port of NCSA Mosaic